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 3:16 PM, Ariya Hidayat <ariya at kde.org> wrote:
> > >  And if you change it (intentionally or not), what happens ?
> > > Anything ?
> >
> >  You can't. It will give a compile error.
>
> Yes, i know. And not only it's orthogonal to this thread, but it begs
> a more fundamental question: why would anyone ever try to modify a
> function argument passed by value. 

1) by mistake
2) too lazy to use another variable