A lot of people seem to be horrified that you can cast constness away. Maybe they have more traumatic experiences than I do, but I believe that if something is

A lot of people seem to be horrified that you can cast constness away. Maybe they have more traumatic experiences than I do, but I believe that if something is possible to do (modifiying an object that is declared const), it should be possible in the language as well. That does not mean it should have well specified semantics or that it should be done without proper considerations.