awesome. thanks.

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
http://tysdomain.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tamas Marki 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [c-prog] operator overloading:what to return?


  On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Tyler Littlefield <[email protected]> 
wrote:
  > wesome, thanks.
  > why the & in the function definition? does that just return a reference?

  Yes, more precisely a const reference. In C++ it's good practice to
  make all immutable parameters const references - it avoids the copying
  of the variable object (if you omit the & you'll get a local copy of
  the variable), and the const forbids you from modifying the original
  value.

  -- 
  Tamas Marki


   

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