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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Safety of unprotected concurrent operations on constant objects
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On 05/03/2014 02:40 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
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> Of course those considerations have nothing to do with whether your
> supposedly constant elements are in fact so.

I have no idea what the OP is asking. Values stored in a container are not 
constant. I can't off the top of my head think of anything you can declare with 
the reserved word constant that you couldn't read concurrently. Perhaps an 
example of the case(s) the OP is worried about would help.

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Jeff Carter
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