C++ How to Program, Ninth Edition

23. Other Topics

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

—William Shakespeare

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

—Sir Isaac Newton

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To use const_cast to temporarily treat a const object as a non-const object.

• To use namespaces.

• To use operator keywords.

• To use mutable members in const objects.

• To use class-member pointer operators .* and ->*.

• To use multiple inheritance.

• The role of virtual base classes in multiple inheritance.

Outline

23.1 Introduction

23.2 const_cast Operator

23.3 mutable Class Members

23.4 namespaces

23.5 Operator Keywords

23.6 Pointers to Class Members (.* and ->*)

23.7 Multiple Inheritance

23.8 Multiple ...