What is the point of const?
What is the point of const?
Elijah Taylor
Nathaniel Long
you can't accidentally change the value and the compiler can optimize it better
Jacob Collins
>compiler can optimize it better
How true is that on a scale from false to true
Xavier Garcia
The point is to communicate to the person reading the code that the value isn't supposed to change.
Michael Russell
It's useful for manipulating higher order functions.
x >> y = x >>= \_ -> y
Brayden Young
It's false. In C++ you literally have a keyword to break the promise (mutable), and in C you can just cast it away.
The point of const is code readability and maintainability.
Jose Anderson
Completely false current year. Maybe true in 1980. Gcc and clang do whatever the fuck they want to your code.
Cooper Nelson
This. Its an enforcement/communication feature. It warns you if you try and violate it.
>haskell fag
How is unemployment going?
Andrew Williams
Very well thankyou user
Elijah Russell
In embedded systems you can have const placed in ROM.