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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: passing POD by value with const qualifiers. Silly or not?
From:       "Stefan Teleman" <stefan.teleman () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-02-22 20:10:15
Message-ID: 1ccb59a20802221210h9eb2f51mbce62d081d3c9a87 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:00 PM, André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking@kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 22 February 2008, Stefan Teleman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking@kde.org>
>  wrote:
>  > >  As I wrote before, it isn't useful in the API.
>  >
>  > It is not useful at all, anywhere. What does it do ?
>
>  Well, in the implementation you can't change the parameter by mistake (I
>  mean the local copy here, not the callers one). I prefer const for
>  variables that don't change.

And if you change it (intentionally or not), what happens ? Anything ?

--Stefan

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Stefan Teleman
KDE e.V.
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