Thread: using objects and pointers

Hello,

I am re-engineering someone elses code and have come across some code I don't really understand.

To keep it simple I have just displayed the code snippets.

I have a class called Board

Code:

class Board
{
	private:
	Board *_boards[10];

	public:
	Board* const* boards() const; 
.
.
.
};

Board* const* Board::boards() const
{
	return _boards;
}

Now I have another a cpp file that using this class.
I have this code which I find hard to understand.

Code:

Board *board = static_cast<Board*>(boards()[i]);

I don't know why there is a [i] at the end of the boards() function?

Any advice would be most gratefull,

Thanks,