On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:54:57 -0500, Don <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
I can't really escape the feeling that 'const' guarantees too little. It makes guarantees to the caller, but tells the callee *nothing*.
This is the basis of my argument that adding logical const would not compromise the guarantee of const, because it has no guarantees to begin with.
But what const *does* do well is give you a good guard-rail to prevent you from making dumb mistakes. Most people are not going to write code that exploits the lack of guarantees, so it's a reasonable constraint.
The huge value of const is to unify both mutable and immutable parameters into one function.
-Steve
