On Mar 17, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Luther Baker wrote:

> Just curious for the reasoning as to why some of the API calls like
> [NSDictionary valueForKey:] take an NSString* and not a *const* NSString* ?

‘const’ doesn’t mean anything when applied to Objective-C object pointers. 
Unlike C++, the language has no notion of a const versus a non-const pointer to 
an object. (There’d be no way to enforce it anyway, since you can send any 
message to any object.)

—Jens

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