Why i can't return this?

[kikirikou]

Hello everyone! I create a class and inside it a make a function which is refered to the specific class. Inside the specific function i make use of "*this" and i have a problem.Forgive me if i am lisened a litle naive but i haven't much experience of "this" pointer yet.Take a look:

class one
{
	public:
		int a,b;
		one(int l,int k){a=l;b=k;}
		one& kalamari(one tsiou);


	private:
};

one& one::kalamari(one tsiou)
{
	a+=tsiou.a;
	b+=tsiou.b;
        cout<<"this-->"<<*this.a<<endl;//Here is my question


	return *this;
}

(Corect me if i am wrong)Since "this" is a pointer which is refering to the element one i thought i could use it to return only one part of this element,thus :

cout<<"this-->"<<*this.a<<endl;//Here is my question

But my compiler returns me an error, Why i can't do that?Is there anything you can suggest? Thanks for your time.

[Albatross]

I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say. What are you trying to do at line 16?

Also, at line 19, are you sure you have enough asterisks there?

-Albatross

[Athar]

You should write a or (*this).a or this->a.
The element access (.) operator has higher priority than the dereferencing operator (*).

[kikirikou]

Thank you all for your time,thanks Athar now i understood what i was doing wrong. May i ask you something more?

Can i return only one part of the element?
for example:

one& one::kalamari(one tsiou)
{
    a+=tsiou.a;
    b+=tsiou.b;


    return (*this).a;
}