On 2/10/06, Jeremy Hylton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added some const to several API functions that take char* but > typically called by passing string literals. In C++, a string literal > is a const char* so you need to add a const_cast<> to every call site, > which is incredibly cumbersome. After some discussion on python-dev, > I made changes to a small set of API functions and chased the > const-ness the rest of the way, as you would expect. There was > nothing random about the places const was added.
I still don't understand *why* this was done, nor how the set of functions was chosen if not randomly. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
