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Re: Refreshed genx.h, plus some plans

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• Subject: Re: Refreshed genx.h, plus some plans
• From: David Tolpin <dvd@d...>
• Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 04:24:02 +0400 (AMT)
• In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0401241910220.19941-100000@s...>

Rich Salz:
> > > BTW, the API doesn't have const-correctness yet.
> >
> > Why is 'const' useful?
> 
> Don't you want to know if genx is going to copy the pointers or copy the
> data pointed to by them?

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.

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