On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Luther Baker wrote: > Obj-C and Cocoa don't support "const" because they are older?
Const showed up in C in around '89 or '90. Retrofitting const into large libraries that were designed without it is an absolute nightmare because of the cascading changes required. Objective-C now picks up C's support of const of course, but Cocoa doesn't use it, so it's not really useful. (And const goes nowhere near as deep as it does in C++, and so isn't useful for the same types of optimization tricks.) -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
