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Old 10-14-2010
C++ type-casting a member variable in const methods

Is it permitted to type-cast a member variable passed in as a parameter in a member const method ..

I am doing something like :

in a
return-type method () const {
variable other = long(member variable)
}

this other assigned variable is not updating and I wonder if type-casting in such a manner of a member variable is allowed.

thks.
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Old 10-14-2010
It ought to work -- depending on what "member variable" was in the first place, of course. And the local variable of course will cease to exist when the function returns. It's also possible that being a "const" function has restricted its access to an operator it needs from the member variable, but in that case it should cause a compiler error... Can you post the actual code?
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