Const initialization issue, looking for solution

[Maxim Fomin]

On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 13:44:15 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 13:35:18 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
>> It is not casting away const and it has nothing to do with 
>> immutable, also this does not suffer from data was actually 
>> immutable problem.
>
> The data is not initially constructed by the local function, 
> it's clearly coming from somewhere else and there's no 
> guarantee that it's not returning a const view of immutable 
> data. The code is not limited to accepting const, of course, 
> and exhibits the same problem when the function returns 
> immutable data.
>
> Unions are a convenience feature, it boils down to the same as 
> a cast and has the same problems (actually worse because the 
> conversion is not explicit).

If you accept const object as a parameter, then yes.