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Subject: Re: passing POD by value with const qualifiers. Silly or not?
From: "Stefan Teleman" <stefan.teleman () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-02-22 20:35:26
Message-ID: 1ccb59a20802221235g14121d49q4f28f0eac69320c3 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:33 PM, André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking@kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 22 February 2008, Stefan Teleman wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> 1) by mistake
> 2) too lazy to use another variable
Are these "technical rationales" ? They sound like excuses to me.
--Stefan
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Stefan Teleman
KDE e.V.
stefan.teleman@gmail.com
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