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If left unspecified, it will default to an 41 unqualified reference to the enclosing class type.</p> 42<p>General documentation on functions in BoostBook is provided in 43 the <a class="link" href="function.html" title="BoostBook element function"><code class="sgmltag-element">function</code></a> 44 element documentation.</p> 45</div> 46<div class="refsection"> 47<a name="id-1.4.3.7.46.5"></a><h2>Attributes</h2> 48<div class="informaltable"><table class="table"> 49<colgroup> 50<col> 51<col> 52<col> 53<col> 54</colgroup> 55<thead><tr> 56<th>Name</th> 57<th>Type</th> 58<th>Value</th> 59<th>Purpose</th> 60</tr></thead> 61<tbody> 62<tr> 63<td>last-revision</td> 64<td>#IMPLIED</td> 65<td>CDATA</td> 66<td>Set to $Date$ to keep "last revised" information in sync with CVS changes</td> 67</tr> 68<tr> 69<td>cv</td> 70<td>#IMPLIED</td> 71<td>CDATA</td> 72<td>cv-qualifiers for this method, e.g., const volatile</td> 73</tr> 74<tr> 75<td>specifiers</td> 76<td>#IMPLIED</td> 77<td>CDATA</td> 78<td>The specifiers for this function, e.g., inline, static, etc.</td> 79</tr> 80<tr> 81<td>id</td> 82<td>#IMPLIED</td> 83<td>CDATA</td> 84<td>A global identifier for this element</td> 85</tr> 86<tr> 87<td>xml:base</td> 88<td>#IMPLIED</td> 89<td>CDATA</td> 90<td>Implementation detail used by XIncludes</td> 91</tr> 92</tbody> 93</table></div> 94</div> 95</div> 96<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 97<td align="left"></td> 98<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2003-2005 Douglas Gregor<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 99 (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at 100 <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>). 101 </p> 102</div></td> 103</tr></table> 104<hr> 105<div class="spirit-nav"> 106<a accesskey="p" href="librarypurpose.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../../reference.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="run-fail-test.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> 107</div> 108</body> 109</html> 110