#5 > If you'll tolerate my hypocrisy for a moment, here's my suggestion: try to avoid putting the const at the beginning like that Or you could not do that, a

#5 > If you'll tolerate my hypocrisy for a moment, here's my suggestion: try to avoid putting the const at the beginning like that Or you could not do that, and put const in the least ambiguous place, and since you rarely have a 'type* const ' it works very well just using: const type* for pointers to const types, and type* const for const pointers to types, and entirely unambiguous.