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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: passing POD by value with const qualifiers. Silly or not?
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-02-21 9:08:36
Message-ID: 200802211008.38001.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> You can't accidentially assign a different value to contact_id in the 
> implementation. It doesn't change anything for the calling code.

Exactly; so it's an implementation detail that surfaces in the API.
If later on you do want to change contact_id inside the implementation, you can't \
because it would change the API.... But I agree that this isn't "a big problem", just \
the reason we usually don't do it that way.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).


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