Workarounds for Lack of Mutable Keyword

[Janice Caron]

On 03/04/2008, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  const means "I promise not to modify this". There is absolutely no
>  problem with promising not to modify something which is invariant.

There is, of course, a /huge/ problem with promising not to modify
something while keeping your fingers crossed behind your back.

Promising not to modify something (which is what accepting a const
parameter means), and then modifying it anyway, is called lying.