Why can't we define re-assignable const reference variable?

[Janice Caron]

On 20/02/2008, Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> The traditional usage of parentheses is this: foo(x).  This means that a
>  function foo is applied to its argument x, and not applied to everything
>  else.  You are probably talking about some different tradition.  Please
>  clarify.

Happy to.

It's the exact same tradition, except that the function in question is
called "const", not "foo". It takes a type as it's input (e.g int),
and yeilds a type as its output (in this case const int).