Re: What is the alternative to lack of C++ style "const" in C#

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mswlogo,

Not to be flippant, but I take option #3 (screw it). While I do see the
practical application of const in C++, the fact that you can just cast it
away made the statement (in my eyes) pretty worthless.

Also, I'm a strong believer in the last statement in option #3, that
good design will alleviate this in most cases (of course not all, but that's
the ideal).


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"mswlogo" <mswlogo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There are many threads on the lack of a true unmanaged C++ const like
> behavior in C# (.Net) and that's not what this topic is about. The
> topic is, what is the best practical way to live with it.
>
> Some developers feel any function that returns an object should copy
> it. This gets pretty expensive performance wise and development wise
> and hard to enforce. It also defeats a lot of what C# intentionally
> did.
>
> Other developers feel you should build your own protection. This has
> good performance but again. This is a high development cost to add to
> all your objects and on a large team with faces coming and going and
> wide range of experience, pretty hard to enforce.
>
> The last option is, screw it, and don't worry about it. You'll create
> more bugs or performance issues by trying to fix it than the problem
> (lake of protection) will likely cause. Super critical objects could
> be manually protected as needed. Hopefully good design will avoid most
> issues.
>
> What is your thoughts and practices?
>


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