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"Christian Hanné" <the.hanne@gmail.com>: Nov 07 10:06AM +0100 East const is the only logigal way to attach constness. That's while constness to a pointer is also attached right to the *.

"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com>: Nov 07 04:16PM +0100 > http://slashslash.info/2018/02/a-foolish-consistency/   > https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/80k8hc/a_blog_rant_on_east_const/   > I'm glad Jon is speaking up about this.   To support consistent left `const` simply define   template< class T > using Type_ = T;   Now you can write e.g.   const Type_<const char*> s = "Aha";   But that's a construed example; in practice I'd instead write that specific example as   const auto& s = "Aha";   ... which is shorter and preserves the string length information.     - Alf

Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk>: Nov 07 08:41PM On 07/11/2020 15:16, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:   > But that's a construed example; in practice I'd instead write that specific example as   >     const auto& s = "Aha";   > ... which is shorter and preserves the string length information.   Alf, pack this fucking nonsense in, pls.   /Flibble   -- ¬

Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com>: Nov 07 01:53PM -0800 On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 9:17:07 AM UTC-6, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:   > > I'm glad Jon is speaking up about this. > To support consistent left `const` simply define   > template< class T > using Type_ = T;   What's the quote about there not being bugs in the line you didn't write?   But would: template< class T > using Type_ = T const;   be helfpul?       > Now you can write e.g.   > const Type_<const char*> s = "Aha";   Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again. https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards

Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com>: Nov 07 02:00PM -0800 On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 3:53:45 PM UTC-6, Brian Wood wrote:   > But would: > template< class T > using Type_ = T const;   > be helfpul?   Not sure, but maybe the answer is no. I think you would get: char * const rather than: char const* .

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