Re: Is this a const class member function

From:

John <gh14tq5@yahoo.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:42:08 -0400

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Leigh Johnston wrote:

"John" <gh14tq5@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:hq4n91$au7$1@speranza.aioe.org...

Hi,

Suppose I have the following class

class A
{
    int a;

    void func1(int& x) const { x = 1; }

    void func2()
    {
       func1(a);
    }

};

Should "func1" be a const member function? It doesn't change any
member data directly, but if called with member data as the argument
then the class data has changed before/after the call.

Thanks,
John

I would say that it should be const yes but you could also argue that it
should be static instead if it doesn't involve any state of A. func2()
would not be callable via a const reference to A.

/Leigh

Hi Leigh,

Are there any disadvanatages to making making a function like this
static. In other words, do you recommend making all member functions
static that do not change the state of a class?

Why would we want func2 to be callable by a const reference to A? Since
func2 is not 'const', shouldn't we want a const& reference to A to not
be able to call it?

Thanks,
John

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