why no const in char* arguments?

[Philip L Dawes <P L Dawes-CSSE94 cs bham ac uk>]

Is there any reason for the lack of 'const' in the char* arguments of
gtklabel and gtkbutton widget functions?

This is a bit annoying for us C++ people who use ansi string objects to
pass around character strings (which convert to const char*'s) since we
have to use a const_cast<char*> for each argument.

>From what I can tell from the source, the char strings are copied 
with g_strdup (which takes a const char* anyway!) and not modified. 
Seeing as the change would not break any existing code, is there any
reason not to do it?

Cheers,

Phil

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