On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:21 +0300, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos
> <tiagomatos gmail com> wrote:
> > On 03/07/2008, Alberto Mardegan <mardy users sourceforge net> wrote:
> >> Hi, quick question: why do methods like
> >>
> >> g_hash_table_size()
> >> g_hash_table_lookup()
> >>
> >> don't accept a "_const_ GHashTable *" as first parameter?
> >
> > Since GHashTable is an opaque data type you don't have to worry about it.
>
> Excuse me, but whether some type/structure is opaque or not have
> nothing with constness. It just irrelewant. And yes, I'm also very
> tired by hevy constless of Glib's API :-(
Because const in C is crippled, unlike in C++ where its actually useful.
Ross
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