Re: [boost] having a variable act as a function call

From: Noel Yap (Noel.Yap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-17 07:31:45

"Victor A. Wagner, Jr." wrote:
> 
> At Thursday 2004-02-12 07:43, you wrote:
> >I'd like to have a variable act as a function call.  For example:
> >
> >         Foo& getFoo();
> >
> >         foo;    // really calls getFoo
> 
> you're saying there is a function which reruns a reference to a foo and you
> want it called when you just say
>          foo;
> you're throwing away the return?

Not at all.  I would like something that acts exactly like:

# define foo getFoo()

except that it must be codable from within another macro definition.  It's not throwing away the return since:

        foo.bar();

should act exactly like:

        getFoo().bar();

Noel