Boost logo

Boost Users :

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-16 11:31:44


> no. I always use const_cast in my own code. so that is why I
> believe it might be there for a reason.

Speaking from my own experience, I've found that people use C-style
casts because theyre lazy OR they don't understand what they want to do.
The latter is really scary sometimes but its normal.

Anyway, because I am dealing with a legacy C api, sometimes I have to
const_cast to call these functions, but marking these with const_cast
makes the casts easy to look for.


Boost-users list run by williamkempf at hotmail.com, kalb at libertysoft.com, bjorn.karlsson at readsoft.com, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, wekempf at cox.net