[petsc-dev] declaring argument as const basic type in PETSc

[Jed Brown]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:04, Chetan Jhurani <chetan.jhurani at gmail.com>wrote:

> void f(const int n, int* j)
> {
>    *j = n;
>    n = 0; // error
> }
>
> Of course it is more useful for preventing bugs in more complex
> functions.
>

This is a semantic of the implementation, not the interface, so it doesn't
belong in the interface. It's not truly meaningless, just meaningless to the
caller.
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