Is there any way to declare, in a member function, that the object it
will operate on, that is, *this, is const?

Alexandre Oliva
oliva@dcc.unicamp.br
Depto de Ciencia da Computacao
DCC - IMECC - UNICAMP
Campinas SP Brazil

oliva@dcc.unicamp.br (Alexandre Oliva @ The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science)writes

 > Is there any way to declare, in a member function, that the object it
 > will operate on, that is, *this, is const?

yes:

 class X {
  void f() const; // f()'s *this is const
  void g();       // g()'s *this is non-const
 };

See the ARM or any decent C++ textbook.