Constant Pointers

Here is an email I received in response to my essay on how to write unmaintainable code.

Constant Pointers : Thomas Uebermeirer : thomas@uebermeier.de : 2000-11-06

Unmaintainable Code is a funny page, I watch it regularly since it appeared in slashdot.

One thing I saw: Under "Naming" #14: "Deutch, Fran¸ais, Esperanto" in German it is spelled "Deutsch", or you can say "dutch" (which is spoken in the Netherlands).

Another idea (in C): put pointers on constants and change them … :)

const float Pi=3.141;
float *j;
[...]
j=&pi;
*j=4.0;

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