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

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Aug 17 14:32:09 CDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:29, Chetan Jhurani <chetan.jhurani at gmail.com>wrote:

> can be avoided by putting const int in declaration
> as well.
>

Right, but doing this is nonsense because it puts implementation details in
a public header, the "anti-encapsulation". Just don't use const for value
parameters.
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