[C++-sig] C++ const -> Python immutable?

[David Abrahams]

Yep. Implementing a notion of immutability is on the list for "someday".

However, I don't yet have plans to make a wrapper around a const reference
to T different from a wrapper around a reference to T. Python doesn't have
the notion of a const reference to a mutable object (though of course
proxies are possible). In python, objects are either mutable or immutable;
end-of-story.

However #2, I don't think it's impossible to implement that distinction.
Let's talk about it again after Boost.Python is released.

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           David Abrahams * Boost Consulting
dave at boost-consulting.com * http://www.boost-consulting.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at yahoo.com>
To: <c++-sig at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [C++-sig] C++ const -> Python immutable?


> --- "Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Wait, I take that back, I was using a type that goes through a custom
rvalue
> > converter... I will try again.
>
> Now it seems to me that both by_reference and by_const_reference work,
but that
> the "const" is lost. Is this correct?
> Ralf
>
>
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