On 2017-10-11, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Neil Cerutti wrote: >> I dig >> const qualifiers, even though I'm comletely fine with their >> absence from Python. > > Out of curiosity, do you have any insights into why you > like them in C++, if you don't miss them in Python?
I like them in C because it allows the linker to place them in ROM with the code. It also _sometimes_ provides useful diagnostics when you pass a pointer to something which shouldn't be modified to something that is going to try to modify it. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
