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David Byrden (Goyra@iol.ie) wrote:
>      The draft standard uses 'constness' several times. There is already a 
> perfectly suitable English word, 'constancy', which removes the need for 
> this recently invented, rather crude word. Why give it the stamp of 
> approval?

Constness and constancy are not the same. Specifically, constness is a 
means of enforcing constancy. Besides, forming new words like this is a 
time-honored tradition (as much as anything in the programming community 
can be considered 'time-honored', I suppose).

--
class JohnWilliams: public Student, public Programmer {
public:
  char const *operator&() const { return "johnw@jove.acs.unt.edu"; }
  char const *homepage () const { return "http://www.unt.edu/~johnw"; }
};
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