C++ question...

[Julien Bect]

Hi guys,

Still trying to get the JIT back to life, I stumbled upon the following 
design :

class
jit_operation
{
public:
  // ...
  const std::string& name (void) const { return mname; }
  void stash_name (const std::string& aname) { mname = aname; }
  // ...
private
  // ...
  std::string mname;
};


Is there some fancy C++ trick hidden there, or would it equivalent to 
simply have a public std::string variable "name"?

@++
Julien