Poll: Would you like to try const-by-default or not?

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Jarrett Billingsley schrieb am 2007-06-10:
> This is not a discussion thread.  I think we've discussed enough.  :)
>
> Basically there are these possible const implementations (there are others, 
> but for the sake of simplicitly, I'll keep this poll to 2):
>
> 1) C++ style const, where you mark anything that should be const as such.
>
> 2) Parameters are const-by-default, and must be marked mutable otherwise. 
> Locals, fields etc. are still mutable by default.

2) const-by-default

I think that const-by-default would result in less complex functions - and
thus much more maintainable ones - than mutable-by-default. This impression
is based what I've see in C++ code, however there are so many factors at
play that a statistical prove is very difficult if not impossible.

Thomas


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