Transitive const sucks

[Janice Caron]

On 9/12/07, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> See, I was basically arguing with you,

That's "with", as in, "on the same side as", not "arguing" as in
"disagreeing". Guess I could have worded that better! Ahem. I'll try
again...


See, I was basically agreeing with you and supporting your claim...

> that transitivity is a good thing


The rest of the post should now make sense!

> -- /provided/ we can have mutable members. Now, if we can't have
> that, then suddenly transitivity no longer seems so welcoming. If
> const-transitivity becomes a strait-jacket, then folk are going to end
> up just not declaring anything const at all, because they can't get
> their code to compile otherwise.