const qualifier in function arguments



Hi List,

i don't understand gtk+'s (and related libs) policy of handling
const qualifiers in function arguments. For example there is:

gtk_widget_modify_font(GtkWidget* ,PangoFontDescription* fn)

in gtk-1.3 tree. That function actually doesn't modify 'fn'
and i think it isn't supposed to. Why isn't this expressed
through a const qualifier?

  Tim




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