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Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast

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From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast
Date Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:38:17 +1300
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On 01/ 6/12 11:17 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 05.01.2012 13:00, gwowen wrote:
>
>> So compile-time constants tend to be capitals. Then that convention
>> tends to leak across to C++ due to the similarity of the languages and
>> the identical use cases.
>
> Hm, I don't think there are really many who start out with C and migrate
> up. Rather they migrate sideways/down from Java and C#. They don't pick
> up all these weird inheritance patterns and singletons and abstract
> factories and managers and whatnot in C, I think.

I think you would be surprised Alf.  Most of the aspirational C++ 
programmers I work with or coach are embedded C programmers looking to 
make the next step.

-- 
Ian Collins

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plz xplain behavior of const_cast Heck <heckja_in@ordertostymieharvestersverizon.net> - 2012-01-05 02:01 -0500
  Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2012-01-05 08:53 +0100
  Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 08:57 +0100
    Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 04:00 -0800
      Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 23:17 +0100
        Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-06 11:38 +1300
        Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-06 06:33 +0000
        Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-06 00:46 -0800
          Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-06 03:19 -0800
        Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-01-07 06:38 +0000
          Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-07 03:53 -0800
      Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-01-06 09:14 +0000
  Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 23:55 -0800
  Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-05 09:04 +0000
  Re: plz xplain behavior of const_cast Heck <heckja_in@ordertostymieharvestersverizon.net> - 2012-01-05 09:36 -0500

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