On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:16:10PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > I've written up some stuff about why consting is good. It's in the > Parrot repository as cage/consting.pod. > > To my old p5p homies: I send this to you so you don't forget about > consting while I'm working over here in Parrotland!
Er, right, um, wotcha Andy! > =head2 C<const> pointers > > If a pointer is qualified as const, then its contents cannot be > modified. I know you know this, and you even demonstrate it later, but what you are talking about here is a pointer to a constant rather than a constant pointer. > =head2 Mixing C<consts> > > Combining C<const>s on a pointer and its constants can get confusing. Very much so. s/constants/contents/ I suspect? Or maybe s/its constants/what it points to/ ? -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
