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Re: name for SEFTable
- To: <tribble>
- Subject: Re: name for SEFTable
- From: Michael McClary <michael>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 89 14:05:12 PDT
- Cc: <mark>, <xtech>
> From tribble Wed Oct 25 17:36:58 1989
>
> note that C++ uses 'const' incorrectly. You can have a 'const'
> pointer to an object that change state because another object has a
> non-const pointer. That's why immutability is different from 'const'.
> An immutable object can't have its state changed at all.
I agree that that's what it does, but I don't agree that it's
incorrect. "const" applies exactly to what it is applied to.
A "const" pointer is a pointer that may not be changed, which
says nothing about the object it designates. You would point
to a const object with a const pointer by saying:
const ConstType * doubleConstP;
while
ConstType * constTypeP;
would be a variable pointer to a const object, and so on.
michael