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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 20:26:25
Message-ID: 1ccb59a20802221226p388f5506h835df8da1cb51368 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Ariya Hidayat <ariya@kde.org> wrote:
> >  And if you change it (intentionally or not), what happens ? Anything ?
>
>  You can't. It will give a compile error.

Yes, i know. And not only it's orthogonal to this thread, but it begs
a more fundamental question: why would anyone ever try to modify a
function argument passed by value. I think the point of the thread was
about whether or not to allow constness mismatches in function
arguments in the declaration and  the definition.

I'm still waiting for a technical rationale for ever doing either of these.

--Stefan

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Stefan Teleman
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