Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!hoptoad!hsfmsh!dumbcat!marc From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: the use of const Summary: Good for programmer eficiency Keywords: const Message-ID: <109@dumbcat.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 89 16:46:41 GMT References: <740@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman) Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca. Lines: 13 In article <740@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> peter@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Peter Schroeder) writes: Is it desirable from an efficiency point of view to use the const modifier wherever applicable? It's good for programmer efficiency. Eight months after you've written the code will you remember which operations modify the state of an object? Which parameters are modified on operaiton calls? If const is used in the class definitmon you won't have to take the time to go digging thru the code. IMHO it helps make code reusable with a smaller learning curve. --marc -- // Marco S. Hyman {ames,pyramid,sun}!pacbell!dumbcat!marc