what do functions like this behave like

[rahulmballal]

object* Function()const; when are they called? whats their use? please explain the syntax someone rahul

[Prakash Nadar]

http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/const.html[^]

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-prakash

[Lost User]

Consider we have a class CFoo

CFoo
{
protected :
//...//
** char* m_sText;**
//...//
public :
//...//
** char* getText() const;**
//...//

}

char* CFoo::getText() const
{
return m_sText;
}

By writing const keyword we make sure that CFoo::getText function does not modify the object for which it is called.So we can't write inside , for example :

char* CFoo::getText() const
{
m_sText="Hello"; //error
return m_sText;
}

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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - W.Churchill

[Renjith Ramachandran]

its a constant function, that can't modify variables with in that function, the compiler will raise an error on that situation. Ninety-eight percent of the thrill comes from knowing that the thing you designed works, and works almost the way you expected it would. If that happens, part of you is in that machine.