On Jun 11, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Jim Puls wrote:
For that matter, it may be worth pointing out John's confusion between "sloppy" and "incorrect". He makes a decent point that returning a mutable object when the method definition specifies an immutable one is sloppy and, indeed, fraught with peril.
Do you feel the same way about passing a (char *) to a method that takes a (const char *)?
I think that it's perfectly reasonable to expect the receiver of the piece of data, or object, that you hand over to respect the basic restrictions of that type.
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