Address of member (pointer syntax)

[Marcus]

Out of curiosity... Does anybody know why we use &Class::member instead
of Class::&member? The second form is more consistent with ::*, .* and
->*.

 

[Victor Bazarov]

Out of curiosity... Does anybody know why we use &Class::member instead
of Class::&member? The second form is more consistent with ::*, .* and
->*.

I think it was first without the ampersand (Class::member), but then the
lookup rules got complicated and the need for the ampersand appeared.
Also, it's not very visible in the code if you write

ClassA::ClassB::ClassC::&member

compared to

&ClassA::ClassB::ClassC::member

.... But those are just wild speculations. Try asking in 'comp.std.c++',
maybe they remember...

V