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

[Stefan Teleman]

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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