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From: Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: Containers - nontrivial element access
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:58:21 -0700
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On Oct 3, 3:15 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> I'm no expert, but I would have expected C++ to distinguish given
>
>    struct Foo {
>       ...
>    };
>
> the three different functions
>
>    Foo return_by_value();
>    Foo* return_by_access();
>    Foo& return_by_reference();

Yes, it does, but in C++ you cannot overload by function return type.