Re: Returning Nulls in Templates

From:
Noah Roberts <dont@email.me>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:51:26 -0700
Message-ID:
<4d879019$0$19696$cc2e38e6@news.uslec.net>
On 3/21/2011 10:01 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:53:17 +0000, Leigh Johnston wrote:

On 20/03/2011 09:17, Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote:

* Ruben Safir, on 20.03.2011 06:37:

inline unk value();


It's not necessary to designate the method as 'inline', since it's in a
template.

On the other hand you should have a 'const' at the end there.

inline unk& value_ref();
inline void value(unk);


When you have exposed a member in all ways possible, and that's roughly
what you have done here, what's the point of having that member
non-'private'?

In this case, nothing.

Remove the accessor and modifier stuff. Just make that value 'public'.


I disagree; instead I would do:

const unk& value() const;
unk& value();
void set_value(const unk&);

/Leigh


If I define value() as a const returning a const reference, then I can't
change the value when using the operator[] and I'd think defeats the
purpose of making it a reference in the first place ..

mylist[2] = mylust[3];

I broke value() into two different methods, one returning the reference

unk Node::value() const{
    return value_;
}

unk& Node::value_ref(){
    return value_;
}


In case you are not aware, you can override based on const-ness. For
example:

unk Node::value() const { return value_; }
unk& Node::value() { return value_; }

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