Re: Const correctness?

Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
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Plus, in C there's no way to correctly annotate a function like
cairo_reference().  In C++ you can define a version taking const and a
non-const version.  In C, you can't.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:01:44 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>
> > Perhaps at that time the usefulness of
> > const'ing parameters was not held as a consensus of the developers at
> > that time.
>
> You have to distinguish between interface and implementation. C doesn’t
> offer any way to say that any modifications to the object are not
> visible to the user.
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