From -6020017069906172277 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,84b1489db50fe20d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!out03b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "subramanian100in@yahoo.com, India" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: static member function and const Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:43:01 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 18 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <1194932017.215138.261760@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1194932027 26955 127.0.0.1 (13 Nov 2007 05:33:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:33:47 +0000 (UTC) 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 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.92.71.201; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:9600 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. Thanks V.Subramanian --- [ 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 ]