va@styx.org.chemie.uni-frankfurt.de (Volker Apelt) writes:

>Is the declaration of two member functions which differ only in their
>ctor-qualifiers valid c++?

You mean cv-qualifiers?  Yes.

>eg.
>
>class A {
>public:
>   T& elem(int n)const;
>   T& elem(int n);
>};

Yes, that's perfectly legal.

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