[vtk-developers] Const correctness for string methods

[Bill Lorensen]

Tricky. I wonder of it's portable.

Bill

At 01:36 PM 1/19/2004, David Thompson wrote:
> > I don't think you can overload based on return value.
>You cannot, but the const-ness of the member function CAN be overloaded.
>For instance,
>
>         double* GetPoint( vtkIdType );
>         const double* GetPoint( vtkIdType ) const;
>
>will work because the const at the end is treated as extra type
>information, just like argument type is.
>
>                 David
>
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