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Robert A Duff wrote:
> Yes.  Also, you can't make a pointer to a stack variable (or component,
> etc) without explicitly declaring it "aliased".

That is only a notational device to inform the reader of the code.

> Oh, yeah, you can't "cast away const" in Ada.  At least not with a
> normal type_conversion.

C++ has const_cast<> for this, although an old C-style cast must
continue to work for backwards compatibility. And since C++ adopted
the mutable keyword, it's not even especially needed at all.

Notice that in both C and C++ it is illeall to cast away constness
from an actual const object. You may only do it to something which
is "accidentally" const because of parameter passing or references.