Re: operator= for a class with a const reference member

From:
Zeppe <zep_p@.remove.all.this.long.comment.yahoo.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 23 May 2007 16:51:35 +0100
Message-ID:
<f31nuv$1dj$1@aioe.org>
Victor Bazarov 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);
   MyClass& operator= (const MyClass& mc);

private:
   const AnotherClass &m_ref ;
};

How do I implement the assignment "constructor"?

MyClass& MyClass::operator= (const MyClass& mc)
{
    m_ref = mc.m_ref ; //dosen't compile (obviously)
    m_ref(mc.m_ref) ; //dosen't compile (obviously)
}


What you're trying to do here is to re-seat the reference. It is
impossible (without some dirty tricks). Once constructed, the object
cannot be assigned because it contains a reference. If you cannot do
without assigning to such objects, they shouldn't contain references
and instead should contain pointers.


Lol, that was actually the question I answered in the previous thread of
this poster. The funny thing is, I answered one hour before the actual
question was sent :)

Regards,

Zeppe

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