c++ tutorial question

[blatantFool]

The polymorphism section of the C++ tutorial starts out saying that if

int::a::b(c) {};

you should go back and reread the Classes section (it doesn't say Classes I or Classes II, so I reread both).

As far as I can tell, this snippet assumes that you have some typedef for c, and that b is a function member of class a that takes a c and returns an int, although in this case control reaches the end of b without returning a value explicitly, so the value that will actually be returned is effectively random (i.e., undefined).

The following code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

typedef int c;

class a
{
public:
int b( c );
} ;

int a::b(c) {};

int main()
{
a foo;
a a;
cout << foo.b( 10 ) << endl << a.b(8);
return 0;

}

compiles, with the expected warning about control reaching the end of a non-void function.

Is this the intended (only) interpretation of the snippet from the tutorial, or am I missing something?

[PanGalactic]

Yes, from what I can tell, this is all you should need to know to continue.

[eker676]

That function has absolutely no purpose. It's best to return values from functions that specify a return type.