Re: Can 'this' be assigned a pointer to it?

From:
JiiPee <no@notvalid.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:24:31 +0000
Message-ID:
<Q4SLw.1249047$I4.811278@fx34.am4>
On 11/03/2015 06:00, Robert Wessel wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:29:48 -0700 (PDT), fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

I read C++ for some time, but I still has problem in understand it.
Below is from web tutorial. It requires to debug it, but I cannot figure out
what is wrong with the void change function.

The error message says that this must be a lvalue. Does that mean 'this'
cannot be assigned a value? Then the change function is invalid?
What it wants me to do?

Please at least give a little hint on it.

thanks,

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

class Test
{
private:
  int x;
public:
  Test(int x = 0) { this->x = x; }
  void change(Test *t) { this = t; }
  void print() { cout << "x = " << x << endl; }
};

int main()
{
  Test obj(5);
  Test *ptr = new Test (10);
  obj.change(ptr);
  obj.print();
  return 0;
}


"9.3.2 The this pointer
In the body of a nonstatic (9.3) member function, the keyword this is
a nonlvalue expression whose value is the address of the object for
which the function is called."

this is not an lvalue, IOW, you can't modify it.


a good answer, +1 :)

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