[vtk-developers] const correctness

[David Partyka]

Which compiler out of curiosity? VS 7.1?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:08 PM, David Thompson <dcthomp at sandia.gov> wrote:

>  Also, const-correctness can be difficult in situations where some tasks
>> appear to be const but in fact are not, leading to difficulties when you
>> need to use them inside another const function. For example,
>> vtkPointLocator::FindClosestPoint() seems like it should be const but in
>> fact it may need to rebuild the bucket structure used to accelerate the
>> search.
>>
>> -> This is why there is the "mutable" keyword in C++.
>>
>
> I was under the impression that at least one compiler VTK supported didn't
> handle it, but that may have changed when some of the compilers were dropped
> a while back.
>
>        David
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