Re: member functions and implicit "this"
On Aug 20, 11:35 am, arnuld <geek.arn...@gmail.com> wrote:
this is from C++ Primer 4/e page 260:
there is a class named Sales_item and same_isbn is a member function of
that class.
bool same_isbn(const sales_item &rhs) const {
return isbn == rhs.isbn;
}
author says the word const modifies the type of implicit "this" paramater.
when we will call this:
total.same_isbn(trans)
then the implicit this parameter will be a --const Sales_item*-- that
points to total and it is as if the body of same_isbn is written as:
bool Sales_item::same_isbn (const Sales_item *const this,
const Sales_item &rhs) const
{
return (this->isbn == rhs.isbn);
}
i don't get it, in the paragraph above the author says const modifies the
type of implicit this to --const Sales_item*-- and in the code he says it
is: --const Sales_item *const this-- (notice the 2 consts)
what exactly the type of this is now ?
'this' is always a "constant pointer". Thus, for a class X, type of
"this" is "X* const". Observe that you can'd do something like this:
class X
{
void doo()
{
this = new X(); //Error, non-lvalue in assignment
}
};
For a const object, the type of "this" is "a const pointer to a const"
i.e "const X* const".
-N
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