On 25 February 2011 17:05, Matthias Kretz wrote: > > I'm saying that the way I thought about const + ctor seems logical (if you are > not a compiler developer at least :-) ). Regardless of how well defined > "return value" is in the standards, to me as C++ developer the ctor acts as a > function that takes some input and leaves as output a constructed object.
But it definitely doesn't *return* that object, any more than the destructor does.
