Dear Atanu, Here are two stackoverflow posts (the first one <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4059932/what-is-the-meaning-of-a-const-at-end-of-a-member-function> more technical, the secon <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10368294/const-at-the-end-of-function-declaration-in-c>d by example) that provide a satisfactory answer to your second question. The search term I used in google to find these posts was
c++ function const at the end Regards, J-P On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 5:22:20 AM UTC+1, Atanu Banerjee wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the reference. I got the point. Please help in one more > thing. > While defining the virtual member functions, e.g., RightHandSide::value, > at the end of the function declaration "const" is added. Why is it so? Can > you please give a reference? > > Thanks > Atanu > > > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 9:42:23 PM UTC+5:30, Jean-Paul Pelteret > wrote: >> >> You're welcome. Since you say that you're a C++ beginner, I'm not sure >> how much you know about polymorphism: just in case you need some further >> clarification, here's an example >> <http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/polymorphism/> that highlights >> what's actually going on here with the base and derived classes (namely >> virtual function overloading). >> >> On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 4:54:39 PM UTC+1, Atanu Banerjee wrote: >>> >>> Ok... Thank you Jean. >>> >> -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
