Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ben> This is why I said what we have is really a mutable, but you can't say
> ben> that in C (its a C++ concept). But the central point is that having
> ben> "const" in an API is a promise not to modify the parameter - its
> ben> completely pointless to make that promise and then break it!
> ben> Furthermore, doing so will (potentially) result in incorrect code being
> ben> generated by the compiler. I simply don't see why it is elegant to claim
> ben> that something is const when it is not!!
>
> What is your suggestion we do? (I think I've asked for suggestions a
> number of times now, and even laid out the alternatives as I saw them)
BTW, Bodo mentioned that dup_expand was dupping regardless of whether it
expands - if so, that'll slow it down a lot, I'd guess. Did you fix
that?
Cheers,
Ben.
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