passing POD by value with const qualifiers. Silly or not?

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> You can't accidentially assign a different value to contact_id in the 
> implementation. It doesn't change anything for the calling code.

Exactly; so it's an implementation detail that surfaces in the API.
If later on you do want to change contact_id inside the implementation, you can't because it would change the API....
But I agree that this isn't "a big problem", just the reason we usually don't do it that way.

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