> I would like to know why usually people defines the = (assign) operator to
> return a reference to an object, (p.e. the basic_string class of the STL).
> We'are going to start a large project and we would like to understand some
> basic concepts.
"More Effective C++" books if you are going to use C++.
Greetings,
Jochen
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Jochen K"upper
Institut f"ur Physikalische Chemie I
Universit"atsstr. 1, Geb 26.43 Raum 02.29 phone ++49-211-8113681
40225 D"usseldorf fax ++49-211-8115195
Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~jochen
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