Glynn Clements wrote:
If a pointer parameter is declared as const, you can pass either const
or non-const pointers. If it isn't declared as const, then you can
only pass non-const pointers, not const pointers.
For that alone please use const when it is needed. Some moron I had to
work with once wrote a wrapper for some printing functions and in the
most significant of his functions he had
void PrintText(char*){/...}
and there was no way for me to write:
PrintText("Hello World");
in my code, I had to use the ugly:
PrintText(const_cast<char*>("Hello World"));
because of someone else's ignorance.
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