Allow member to be const while still supporting operator= on the class
- by LeopardSkinPillBoxHat
I have several members in my class which are const and can therefore only be initialised via the initialiser list like so:
class MyItemT
{
public:
MyItemT(const MyPacketT& aMyPacket, const MyInfoT& aMyInfo)
: mMyPacket(aMyPacket),
mMyInfo(aMyInfo)
{
}
private:
const MyPacketT mMyPacket;
const MyInfoT mMyInfo;
};
My class can be used in some of our internally defined container classes (e.g. vectors), and these containers require that operator= is defined in the class.
Of course, my operator= needs to do something like this:
MyItemT&
MyItemT::operator=(const MyItemT& other)
{
mMyPacket = other.mPacket;
mMyInfo = other.mMyInfo;
return *this;
}
which of course doesn't work because mMyPacket and mMyInfo are const members.
Other than making these members non-const (which I don't want to do), any ideas about how I could fix this?
