Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109864: Fix minor problems found by static checking.

[Jason Rumney]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Emacs tends to avoid 'const', though, partly
> because it predates 'const, and partly I expect because
> even in these other cases the readability advantage of
> omitting 'const' arguably trumps the minor advantages
> of using 'const'.

I think mostly because retrofitting const to a codebase the size of
Emacs is a huge task, and isn't something that can be done gradually.