On 12/18/2013 05:05 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
On 18/12/13 16:59, Timon Gehr wrote:
It will be used to annotate a postblit that requires all fields with
indirections to be re-initialized with freshly allocated data instead
of a
postblit that is used during copying of a const object. (There will be
no way to
define such a const postblit, because the DIP assumes this to be
useless.)
Not sure I see the difference here with the existing different cases of
const attached to a variable vs. const attached to a method. The
meanings are subtly different but the analogy is helpful.
Well, 'const' attached to a method is simply the notation used for
attaching 'const' to the implicit 'this' parameter.
