On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:38 PM, David Kilzer <ddkil...@webkit.org> wrote:
> In a discussion on Bug 71921<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71921>, > Antti, Darin Adler and I started a discussion about using C++ constant > pointers in WebKit. Does the WebKit community have a consensus opinion on > the matter? > It seems like the const in "T * const idName" is equally useful (or useless) to the const in "const T idName". Both are saying that |idName| (as opposed to what it points to, in the first case) is constant. In both cases people are rarely in that habit of using const, especially when |idName| is a local. The same pros and cons seem to apply to both. Therefore I would suggest that if we want to make a rule, we make it apply to both cases. I personally like using const as much as possible (without overstepping logical constness limits), but I also suspect my view is the minority. PK
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