[cairo] Missing const on set_dash()? [cairomm]
Jonathon Jongsma
jonathon at quotidian.org
Mon Aug 17 19:36:38 PDT 2009
Ian Britten wrote:
> Hi all,
> Am I correct that the first parameter to Cairo::Context::set_dash()
> should be const? And that cairomm copies the input, and doesn't
> modify the parameter?
> http://cairographics.org/documentation/cairomm/reference/classCairo_1_1Context.html#de74abb6db86a97ff3800e431e27ba45
>
> Assuming "yes", I don't know if it can be changed at this point, or
> if that'd be a problematic ABI change, but I'd vote to change it...
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
Yes, indeed that is an oversight. Providing a const overload for this function shouldn't be a problem, and we can deprecate the incorrect version.
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jonner
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