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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Const member function semantics
Message-ID: <9662@alice.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 89 21:17:52 GMT
References: <2943@internal.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <2943@internal.Apple.COM>, arn@apple.com (Arn Schaeffer) writes:

> Is it (will it be) possible for me to make the statement I'd like to make? 
> In my work it seems that most of the time I don't want to make the 
> statement about storage just about interface.

Well, you can use a cast to remove the constness of `this'
if you insist.  Opinions are divided, however, about whether
such an operation should always be guaranteed to work.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com