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Cohoon/Davidson: C++ Program Design, Third Edition
C++ Program Design, 3/e
James P. Cohoon, University of Virginia
Jack W. Davidson, University of Virginia

The class construct and object-oriented design

Chapter Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter the student will understand and be able to utilize the following key concepts:

Reference parameters are a way to pass objects to functions so that they can be modified by the called function and the modified value passed back to the calling function.

Const parameters cannot be changed during the invocation of the function.

C++ also allows the user to define default parameters for functions.