In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [IIRC the question at one time was whether a const method in C++ could > change the underlying object, providing the values returned by all public > methods would not change as a result] The answer to which is of course that a const method can change any mutable members of the object ;-) Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu