Synopsis

(Advisory) Member functions returning references to their object should be ref-qualified appropriately

Enabled by default

No

Severity/Certainty

Low/Medium

Full description

Member function is not appropriately ref-qualified

Coding standards

This check does not correspond to any coding standard rules.

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

class C 
{
public:
  C& me() { return *this; }
};

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

class C 
{
public:
  C& me() & { return *this;}
};