Re: Return struct from function
eladla <eladla@newsgroups.nospam> wrote:
I was thinking and I must admit I fail to see the logic in this...
When I use the datatype inside the function I don`t have to refrence
the class...so why would I have to do so in the defenition?
The return type is not yet in class scope, the body of the function is.
Roughly speaking, the compiler sees unary_cashed_info first and has to
figure out what it is, but can't find it defined anywhere in namespace
scope. So you have to specify CCFEApp::unary_cashed_info to get the
compiler past the return type and into the function body. Once it got to
the body, the complier knows that it's in the member function of a
class, so it looks up names in class scope as well as in namespace
scope.
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With best wishes,
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