`const` all the things? – Arthur O'Dwyer – Stuff mostly about C++
Last week someone posted a /r/cpp thread titled “Declaring all variables local to a function as const”: Ok, so I’m an old-school C++ programmer using the language now since the early ’90s. I’m a fan of const-correctness for function and member declarations, parameters, and the like. Where, I believe, it actually matters. Now we have a team member who has jumped on the “everything is const” bandwagon. Every code review includes dozens of lines of local function variables now declared const that litter the review. Intellectually, I understand the (what I consider mostly insig...
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