Re: constness of private members and methods

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From: Steve Clamage
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:29

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In article 8fo@dub-news-svc-4.compuserve.com, Philippe Verdy 

>Is there any way (or proposal) to explicitly specify members
>of a class definition which are relaxed on constness certi-
>fication ?
>
>Would not it be great if we could simply define such members
>as "unconst" like in the following example :

The C++ draft standard has for some time included the keyword "mutable".
A mutable data member may be modified by any member function,
even if the object or the member function is const.

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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com




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