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List:       kdevelop-devel
Subject:    Re: Can IDocumentationProvider::homePage be non-const?
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2009-12-01 22:46:57
Message-ID: 200912012346.57373.mail () milianw ! de
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On Tuesday 01 December 2009 23:21:24 Aleix Pol wrote:
...

> > Hm, one thing I forgot:
> > should the IDocumentationProvider returned by m_provider be const? I mean
> > the
> > public API only consists of const stuff, but I still have to const_cast<>
> > it
> > before I can return it...
> >
> > And it looks like pointer to providers are used quite often in
> > KDevplatform (the documentation controller esp.).
> >
> > It would require lots of (simple) changes there, just to get rid of a
> > single
> > const_cast - is it worth it?

...

> What I do in Qt doc is to have a static member with the provider and return
> that one.
> That way every IDocumentation instance doesn't store a pointer to the
> provider (which is shared, of course).

Yeah, saw that but find it (personally) even worse than the static cast ;-) So 
I'll leave it as-is.

Thanks Apol.

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Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de

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