Quote:Original post by Estor

Quote:Original post by Ksingh30
ok I think I wasnt clear before. Its a function thats either gonna return a character, or a pointer to a node, which is defined as follows:
struct node
{
char info;
struct node* next;
};

this problem is keeping me back, I cant go on until I get this figured out, and the assignment is due tommorow, if could just get this the rest wont be hard.

Ooook... [looksaround]

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In this case you can return pointer to retVal becase it's static, but be aware that if someone will do something like this:

node* n1 = someFunc();
node* n2 = someFunc();

then n1 and n2 will have exacly this same values.

You can try this:

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Bat you must remeber to delete returned value:

node* n1 = someFunc();
/* use n1 */
delete n1;


I assume you are expecting something like this:
node* someFunc( /* your params */ );
char* someFunc( /* your params */ );

but like ricekrispyw wrote

Quote:Original post by ricekrispyw
1) You cannot have an overloaded function that differs only in return type

So just return node struct, and use next field to check is it char or next node.
If next is != NULL then you have node, else info has important char.

Hope this helps [smile]

struct atom{    char value;};struct node{     union pointer	//To determine what this node of the list points to     { 	struct atom  *AtomPointer;	struct node  *ListPointer;     }point;     struct node* next;};typedef node* list;