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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, fifth edition
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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, fifth edition

by Jesse Liberty, Rogers Cadenhead
April 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
9h 18m
English
Sams
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Hour 9. Moving into Advanced Classes

const Member Functions

If you declare a member function to be constant with the const keyword, it indicates that the function won’t change the value of any members of the class. To declare a function as constant, put the keyword const after the parentheses, as in this example:

void displayPage() const;

Accessors used to retrieve a variable’s value, which also are called getter functions, often are constant functions. The Tricycle class from the preceding hour has two accessors:

void setSpeed(int newSpeed);int getSpeed(); ...

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