I just got it! (invariant/const)

[Lionello Lunesu]

"Jason House" <jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Georg Wrede Wrote:
>
>> Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
>> > On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:40:37 +0200, Janice Caron wrote:
>>
>> >> You know that. I know that. Why would anyone think it strange?
>> >
>> > I think it is because invMemberFunc is invariant. Many read this as
>> > "will not change anything", even though it is not what it means.
>>
>> I seriously think the problem is with the phrase "invMemberFunc is
>> invariant".
>>
>> This leads people to think invariantness is a property of the function,
>> instead of it merely requiring an invariant "this".
>>
>> Maybe we should figure out another way of stating it.
>
> Is that really the best solution?  Why not have do what people nievely 
> think it does?  The code optimizer would benefit from that as well.

I agree.. And one less keyword, which, it seems, is a goal in itself.

L.