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Top Forums Programming C++ function using strings Post 302744491 by DGPickett on Friday 14th of December 2012 11:12:31 AM
Old 12-14-2012
The '&' is just a 'silent pass by pointer reference compiler directive', efficient if you want to do less copying of a large object, and potentially allowing modification of the original since the called method has access to the original, not a copy. I call it silent (and have mixed feelings about it as a direction) because, unlike the C practice of explicit pass by pointer reference, this one is invisible when calls are instantiated unless you refer to the function/method declaration. Saving the programmer keystrokes and encouraging pass by reference but also improving the chances of programmer error.

Modifying the original passed by reference is a good segue into const, with is more often used in call declarations to say the called method cannot directly modify the original. Of course, if the called method can call a class method that modifies, that gets a bit thin -- it was more for primitives -- look but do not change. Using const on a declaration says that the initialized value is the only value, it can never be changed, so it can be copied freely, cached without worrying about having a stale copy, a bit like final, but once that was just JAVA. Java's final vs. C++'s const - Stack Overflow

Const can have either of two meanings with pointers, const pointer or pointer to const data: C++ Reference - Const Pointers - Cprogramming.com

Quick interview question -- what are the three meanings of static?
 

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wstring(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					       wstring(3C)

NAME
wstring, wscasecmp, wsncasecmp, wsdup, wscol - Process Code string operations SYNOPSIS
#include <widec.h> int wscasecmp(const wchar_t *s1, const wchar_t *s2); int wsncasecmp(const wchar_t *s1, const wchar_t *s2, int n); wchar_t *wsdup(const wchar_t *s); int wscol(const wchar_t *s); DESCRIPTION
These functions operate on Process Code strings terminated by wchar_t null characters. During appending or copying, these routines do not check for an overflow condition of the receiving string. In the following, s, s1, and s2 point to Process Code strings terminated by a wchar_t null. wscasecmp(), wsncasecmp() The wscasecmp() function compares its arguments, ignoring case, and returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0, depending upon whether s1 is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than s2. It makes the same comparison but compares at most n Process Code characters. The four Extended Unix Code (EUC) codesets are ordered from lowest to highest as 0, 2, 3, 1 when characters from different codesets are compared. wsdup() The wsdup() function returns a pointer to a new Process Code string, which is a duplicate of the string pointed to by s. The space for the new string is obtained using malloc(3C). If the new string cannot be created, a null pointer is returned. wscol() The wscol() function returns the screen display width (in columns) of the Process Code string s. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------------------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |MT-Level MT-Safe | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
malloc(3C), string(3C), wcstring(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 29 Dec 1996 wstring(3C)
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