[vox] things that really suck about C!

[Brian Lavender]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:49:28PM -0800, Carl Boettiger wrote:
>    On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Brian Lavender <[1]brian at brie.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      I think if anything, C has been a certain detriment to the field of
>      computer science!
>      One calls a function and the arguments are passed by value. Call a
>      function with an array as an argument, and feel free to modify its
>      contents!
> 
>    so declaring an array as const prevents this, func(const double * a).

My point was so that the code _did_ modify a.


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