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

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2008, um 22:02 Uhr, schrieb Stefan Teleman:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> >  This is a pretty stupid example, but nevertheless it should illustrate
> >  why it might be nice to put a const before a function argument:
> >
> >  void f( const int x )
> >  {
> >   if ( x = -1 ) {
> >     return;
> >   } else {
> >     print( x );
> >   }
> >  }
>
> if (-1 = x) {
>
> // ...
>
> And, thusly, you don't need const to avoid this one ... :-)

So what about non-static comparators, e.g. with
if (mX = x) ... 
:)

Friedrich