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Ummm... I don't think you are supposed to ignore those messages that
encourage you to "cast types" in the first place: it's the C compiler's
way of "enforcing" const-ness.
William J. Kammerer
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tolpin" <dvd@davidashen.net>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Saturday, 24 January, 2004 07:24 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Refreshed genx.h, plus some plans
Rich Salz:
> > > BTW, the API doesn't have const-correctness yet.
> >
> > Why is 'const' useful?
>
> Don't you want to know if genx is going to copy the pointers or copy
the
> data pointed to by them?
The sad thing is that no C compiler is able to enforce const-correctness
consistently; they are only good as comments, and as such, I prefer
comments over keywords. This keyword gets in the way and forces to
cast types; it never helps.
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