<@U0JKD0HPZ>: In a nutshell, C++' const ended up h...

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@zzing: In a nutshell, C++' const ended up having a very infectious effect to your code base, to the point of being very impractical. It was so impractical that we ended up adding const_cast to the spec (yes, to the spec) to allow users to modify objects even though they were defined const