Variable error: unknown type name

Question

I have this code (just a snippet)

const Line & operator= (rhs : const Line &)
{
}

But I am getting:

Unknown type name 'rhs'

What should I do?

This is not Pascal/Delphi, the type has to come before the name, without colon — Rakete1111, Jun 06 '16 at 09:44
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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '16 at 09:47

You need to write

Line& operator=(const Line& rhs)

Note the placement of rhs.

I've also dropped the const at the beginning of the line since the conventional thing to return when overriding assignment is a reference to self, not a const reference to self.

Variable error: unknown type name

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