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Ummm... I don't think you are supposed to ignore those messages that encourage you to "cast types" in the first place: it's the C compiler's way of "enforcing" const-ness. William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. Columbus, US-OH 43221-3859 +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tolpin" <dvd@d...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Saturday, 24 January, 2004 07:24 PM Subject: Re: Refreshed genx.h, plus some plans 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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