passing POD by value with const qualifiers. Silly or not?
Stefan Teleman
stefan.teleman at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 20:35:26 GMT 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:33 PM, André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking at kde.org> wrote:
> 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
Are these "technical rationales" ? They sound like excuses to me.
--Stefan
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Stefan Teleman
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