> Also changing it now would be a giant hassle, leading to so-called > "const poisoning" where many, many APIs need to be changed before > everything would again work.
We have been adding const to many places over the years. I think the specific case was just missed (i.e. nobody cared about adding const there). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
