I recently decided to do the right thing & write accessor functions for my
class member variables instead of having them public and introduced a rather
nasty bug. The class below shows the error - basically if you forget to add
the parenthesis in the call to function X() then the program compiles ok with
no warnings but gives the wrong answer :(
I'm using VS2005 Prof edition v2.0.50727
The answer seems to be that if you are writing accessor functions then don't
use overloaded functions - maybe use setX & getX instead - or make sure you
don't forget the parenthesis! It seems to think I want a function pointer(?)
but I think it should at least give a warning.
class Test {
public:
Test() : m_Num(10) {}
void X(const double val) {m_Num = val;}
double X(void) {return m_Num;};
private:
double m_Num;
};
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
Test t;
double y = 5.0;
double z;
// z = t.X // this will generate an error
z = t.X * y; // this will generate no error or warning but won't call t.X()
return 0;
}
I've googled for this but am surprised I've not seen more issues with this
