Make All Types Constant by Default in C++
- by Jon Purdy
What is the simplest and least obtrusive way to indicate to the compiler, whether by means of compiler options, #defines, typedefs, or templates, that every time I say T, I really mean T const? I would prefer not to make use of an external preprocessor. Since I don't use the mutable keyword, that would be acceptable to repurpose to indicate mutable state.
Potential (suboptimal) solutions so far:
// I presume redefinition of keywords is implementation-defined or illegal.
#define int int const
#define ptr * const
int i(0);
int ptr j(&i);
typedef int const Int;
typedef int const* const Intp;
Int i(0);
Intp j(&i);
template<class T>
struct C { typedef T const type; typedef T const* const ptr; };
C<int>::type i(0);
C<int>::ptr j(&i);
