Re: What this line of code means?

From:
 Neelesh Bodas <neelesh.bodas@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:27:59 -0700
Message-ID:
<1184153279.015145.15850@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 11, 3:12 pm, "Samant.Tru...@gmail.com"
<Samant.Tru...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 11, 2:46 pm, Erik Wikstr=F6m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:

On 2007-07-11 06:28, Samant.Tru...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

  I have some code that I am unable to understand. Can you please
help?

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
  // Initialize COM environment.
   ccLib::CCoInitialize CoInitialize(ccLib::CCoInitialize::eMTAModel);
...
}
1. CCoInitialize is a class
    to invoke a object of class you write
    CCoInitialize cc;
2. CoInitialize is static function.
    to invoke static function you write scope resolution "::"

ccLib::CCoInitialize::CoInitialize(ccLib::CCoInitialize::eMTAModel);

when they have "space" instead of "::" what is that mean? What are
they trying to do?


It creates an instance of the CCoInitialize class called CoInitialize,
the parameters passed to the constructor is CCoInitialize::eMTAModel.


The thing is CoInitialize is a static function of class
CCoInitialize. Is it possible to have funtion name and instatnce name
same?


Why not?

struct X
{
    x(int); // constructor
    static void Foo(int); // static member function
};

X::Foo(5); // calls static function
X Foo(5); //creates an instance Foo of class X using X::X()

Foo.Foo(5); // calls the static function using the instance.

Note that the last line above is -
a) syntactically not an error
b) semantically equivalent to X::Foo(5);

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