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Re: Refreshed genx.h, plus some plans

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• Subject: Re: Refreshed genx.h, plus some plans
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:20:40 -0800
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Tim Bray wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2004, at 4:24 PM, David Tolpin wrote:
>
> > The sad thing is that no C compiler is able to enforce
> > const-correctness
> > consistently; they are only good as comments, and as such, I prefer
> > comments over keywords. This keyword gets in the way and forces to
> > cast types; it never helps.
>
> Hah!  I didn't know that, but I suspected that it couldn't actually be
> useful. Thank you.  -Tim

Even if you don't consider it useful, it's a good idea
to make interfaces const-correct anyway just to avoid
impedance mismatches with other parts of the system.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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