Last week someone posted a /r/cpp thread noscriptd
“Declaring all variables local to a function as const”:


Ok, so I’m an old-school C++ programmer using the language now since the early ’90s.
I’m a fan of const-correctness for function and member declarations…

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becoming one of those "old programmers" as i relay another piece of folklore, this time about Kazushige Goto, a japanese patent clerk who ended up becoming one of the world's best assembly optimisers as it was something to do on his two hour commute to work

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