All right, all right! Interim decision regarding qualified Object methods

[Mehrdad]

On Thursday, 12 July 2012 at 19:38:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On the other hand, if you're dealing with your own class 
> hierarchy, you can choose what you're going to mark as const or 
> not



Say person X who develops a class A with a const member similar 
to opEquals or whatever suits your fancy.

Say person Y is using person X's library (person X doesn't even 
_know_ person Y, let alone show him the source code), and finds 
that too restricting. It's being "forced onto them".



Could you tell me how this situation is different from the above?

How is person Y supposed to solve this problem? Modify the 
declarations? cast()?