Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] node.cc

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 14:48, Christophe de Vienne wrote:
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> It's ok I understood. Sorry for disturbing...
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> On Samedi 16 Novembre 2002 14:46, Christophe de Vienne wrote:
> > Hi murray,
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> > Changing property to attribute in the code, I found this, which I do not
> > understand :
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> >     240 const Attribute * Node::property(const std::string& n) const
> >     241 {
> >     242   return const_cast<Node *>(this)->property(n);
> >     243 }
> >
> > How this method is supposed to return one day the good result ?

To avoid confusion in future, it would be better to use const_cast<> and
add a comment. Also, I don't think the "this" is necessary.

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