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by Bohan Liu :: Rate this Message:

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Dear all,
 
I have a question about "operator=" function member in observable and observer class.
 
observable& operator=(const observable& o) {
 
       notifyObservers();
 
       return *this;
}
 
Why does this function have the return type "observable&" instead of "void"? Because I think this function is just to notify the registered observers.
 
Besides "notifyObservers()", what other things happen if an object of observable is assigned to the other object (e.g. observable1 = observable2)?
 
Best,
 
Bohan
 
 

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Re: observable class

by Bojan Nikolic :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Bohan,

Bohan Liu <bliu204@...> writes:

> Why does this function have the return type "observable&" instead of "void"?
> Because I think this function is just to notify the registered
> observers.

The reason is so that you can string assignments together in the usual
C++ way, i.e., do:

o1=o2=o3=o4;

> Besides "notifyObservers()", what other things happen if an object of
> observable is assigned to the other object (e.g. observable1 = observable2)?

Like the comments indicate, the observers are not copied to the new
object, so as far as I know, nothing else happens. Derived class can
of course implement more functionality in this call to copy over any
required class data.

Best,
Bojan

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