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

[André Wöbbeking]

On Friday 22 February 2008, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking at kde.org> 
wrote:
> >  As I wrote before, it isn't useful in the API.
>
> It is not useful at all, anywhere. What does it do ?

Well, in the implementation you can't change the parameter by mistake (I 
mean the local copy here, not the callers one). I prefer const for 
variables that don't change.