Re: [Avogadro-devel] const functions

[Donald E. C. <don...@ui...>]

(Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:06:49AM +0100) Benoit Jacob <ja...@ma...>:
> Yes, that's how you do it. But then the method returning const must be 
> marked with the const modifier itself.
> 
> class SomeClass
> {
> protected:
> 	VectorType m_vector;
> 
> public:
> 	VectorType & GetVector()
> 	{
> 		return m_vector;
> 	}
> 
> 	const VectorType & GetVector() const
> 	{
> 		return m_vector;
> 	}
> };

Ugh.  For some reason i was making both functions constant with one
returning a constant pointer and one not which makes me feel like a
moron for not realizing why that makes no sense.  Thanks for clearing
this up. haha.