Transitive const sucks

[Bruno Medeiros]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> What is the argument against mutable again?
> 
> In C++, you can do this:
> 
>  class C
>  {
>  public:
>      mutable int x;
>      C() { x = 0; }
>      void f() const { x = 5; }
>  }
> 
>  main()
>  {
>      const C c;
>      printf("%d\n", c.x); /* prints 0; */
>      c.f();
>      printf("%d\n", c.x); /* prints 5; */
>  }
> 
> This is clearly nonsense.
> 
> That would be disallowed in my scheme. (...at least, if main() was in
> a different file from the definition of C).

And why is this nonsense?? Because x is public? I don't see the problem 
here.

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