[Python-Dev] Opinions on const-correctness? (original) (raw)

Juergen Hermann Juergen Hermann" <j.her@t-online.de
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:57:01 +0100

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:31:50 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

Am I missing something? Admittedly, I'm not intimately familiar with what the 'C' committee did to the library when they introduced const to=

the language.

They fixed it, leaving intentional warts like that strchr() takes a const char* and returns a char*, in order to not break existing code.

My original intention was to do exactly that to the (public, most often used) Python interface.

Ciao, J=FCrgen