Re: Copy constructor question

From:
Zeppe <zep_p@.remove.all.this.long.comment.yahoo.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 23 May 2007 16:47:41 +0100
Message-ID:
<f31nnm$16n$1@aioe.org>
Victor Bazarov wrote:

Zeppe wrote:

Bart Simpson wrote:

I have a class that has a member that is a const reference:

class MyClass
{
public:
   MyClass(const AnotherClass& ac);
   MyClass(const MyClass& mc);
   //....

private:
   const AnotherClass &m_reference ;
};

How do I implement the copy constructor? (I get compilation erros
with this):

you can't.

Use a pointer instead of a reference if you want to copy the object
properly (i.e., modifying the reference member).


Huh? Compile this (and then explain):


Sorry, sorry! Gosh! I was reading the post, and then I just saw the
reference member and I suddenly thought about the operator=... stupid
me, I have no excuse, I should really pay attention before posting. Even
because my sentence was totally unrelated to the error...

To the OP: the code seems fine to me, in which line are you experiencing
the error? It seems the effect of some Microsoft extension (CLR)...

Regards,

Zeppe

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