Question

I’ve stumbled upon this code that really confuses me:

SomeObject->SomeFunction()->AnotherFunction(...);

What is the meaning of the second arrow -> that follows the call to SomeFunction() member function?

P.S. SomeFunction() function is declared inside a class just like this:

const int * SomeFunction() {return ipValue;}

Answer 1

SomeFunction() returns a pointer to a class which has one of its methods (called AnotherFunction) invoked. If you break it up, it might look like this:

Object* obj = SomeObject->SomeFunction();
obj->AnotherFunction();

As already mentioned, if SomeFunction() returns an int* this won’t work.