Re: What's the philosophical definition of const? Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source
DeMarcus wrote:
Is there any common idea of the _philosophical_ definition of const
or is this very individual in the business? What is your opinion on
this?
Here is another example.
class Boat
{
void boardPassenger( Passenger* passenger ) const;
... a lot of other functions belonging to a boat ...
}
I add passengers to the boat but they don't alter my boat
(hopefully).
It depends on what the rest of the interface is like. The number of
passengers might very well alter the state of the boat. Can it have
any number of passengers on board, or is there a regulated maximum
allowed?
Is an overloaded boat the same as an empty boat?
Is there a common way of thinking that can be good to know when
dealing with these kind of const structures or is it up each and
everyone and their perspectives of the objects? Or if I put it like
this; if you hired me and I would write const code like the above,
would you react?
I'm not hiring. :-)
Bo Persson
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