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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:04:49PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > Anders Logg wrote:
> > > I might have asked this before, but why all the consts on built-in
> > > types in argument lists in the la classes?
> > >
> > >     init(const uint M, const uint N);
> > >
> > > Why not just
> > >
> > >     init(const uint M, const uint N);
> > What's the difference between these two?
> >
> > Garth
>
> Sorry, ... :-) I meant
>
> Why not just
>
>     init(uint M, uint N);

What's the problem with const? Not much might happen in these functions, 
but M and N are not meant to be changed by the init function, so we 
might as well use const.

Garth

> /Anders
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