const_cast: A Necessary Evil

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening. Thoughts both confusing and enlightening. We don’t like const_cast much. It’s ugly, and can even lead to undefined behaviour. But unfortunately sometimes it’s needed. Even aside from interacting…

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Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

Thoughts both confusing and enlightening.

We don’t like const_cast much. It’s ugly, and can even lead to undefined behaviour. But unfortunately sometimes it’s needed. Even aside from interacting with C libraries which don’t respect const , there is at least one place in the C++ standard that requires you to use it.

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