[Python-Dev] Opinions on const-correctness?

[Juergen Hermann]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:31:50 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

>Am I missing something? Admittedly, I'm not intimately familiar with
>what the 'C' committee did to the library when they introduced const to=

>the language.

They fixed it, leaving intentional warts like that strchr() takes a
const char* and returns a char*, in order to not break existing code. 

My original intention was to do exactly that to the (public, most often
used) Python interface.

Ciao, J=FCrgen