From -5900839438898091321 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,84b1489db50fe20d X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:10:43 -0600 Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-SMTP-Auth: no From: "Roman.Perepelitsa@gmail.com" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: static member function and const Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1195032555.778550.210270@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> References: <1194932017.215138.261760@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Maxthon; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 lonwhs01px01 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.4P1D1) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.205.246.151; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:02:59 CST Lines: 37 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ykDFfhT5+usZckKGlSAWS/KDCAUm3b9XfvAEzF1pm+DlCb0lQXaqiZ/CiGXWC9CFxQXLUN50OHH5A9O!nr51QEwqtqCAHHT4CcvGCcT951M0liOAdj0pLlbOhb5/qz9t/I/2biJNmiSSDTt+2IUQZ5TZu0ra!OBbp39ta5Q== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:9617 On 13 Nov, 10:43, "subramanian10...@yahoo.com, India" wrote: > why can't a static member function be declared as const ? > We can declare a non-static member function as const, > to indicate that it does not modify the non-mutable data > members of a class. In the same way, is there a provision > to indicate that a static member function does not modify > the static data members but only uses their values ? > > Kindly explain. It would be pointless, because you can easily remove const without a cast. struct foo { static void bar() const; int i; }; int & get_foo_i() { return foo::i; } void foo::bar() const { int & hacked = get_foo_i(); // use hacked } Regards, Roman Perepelitsa. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]