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The C++ 'const' Declaration: Why & How by Graham at 8:45 am EST, Jan 25, 2007
The 'const' system is one of the really messy features of C++. It is simple in concept, variables declared with ‘const’ added become constants and cannot be altered by the program, but, in the way is has to be used to bodge in a substitute for one of the missing features of C++, it gets horridly complicated and frustratingly restrictive. The following attempts to explain how 'const' is used and why it exists.
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