in "Overloading the Assignment Operator" page 418 at the bottom, the example member function returns "* this".

At the top of pg 419, Ivor says that we return a reference with this statement.

I'm a little confused. My understanding is that "this" is a pointer (to the object calling the function). So, if I use, "* this" am I de-referencing the this pointer, and therefore passing an "object" back?

VC++ help document, http://ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN...7fad90791f.htm
says
The expression *this is commonly used to return the current object from a member function:

Code:

return *this;

Sincerely,
Brian

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Sincerely,
Brian