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What's the difference between having a const function and declaring const after the function? For example, if I had a class Myclass with some private data members and I set up a public function called int getMyValue(), what would the difference be between declaring that function as:

const int getMyValue();

and

int getMyValue() const;
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The first example associates the const-ness with the value returned from the call. In the second example you are specifying that the call can not modify the object being invoked.

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