[vtk-developers] Const correctness for string methods

Sebastien BARRE sebastien at barre.nom.fr
Mon Jan 19 14:15:17 EST 2004


Hi John,

At 1/19/2004 07:05 PM, John Biddiscombe wrote:

>I'd like to see const correctness handled properly. The downside is the
>chain of changes and mutable properties, but the upside is safer code and
>better optimization by decent compilers.

And you back that up with ?...

>It's not much worse for people than changing everything to double from
>float - which let's face it has completely buggered all my code,

That's pants :), but you will see, at the end of the day it will buy you 
something (it *does* actually make things a little bit safer, ask Ken about 
floating point exceptions...).




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