Re: octave_base_value::print const-ness and method overload

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:29 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

On 01/27/2014 07:28 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

I thought also about that solution, but that's only part of the problem.
You're still unable to compile, because you can't call the private
constructor octave_value(const octave_base_value*).

OK.  In that case, I think it is better to remove the const qualifier on the print method than it is to use const_cast to cast away const.

The only concern I have there is that this will potentially break all classes inheriting from octave_base_value. The ones in octave source tree can be fixed, but not the others (like in forge packages). Not sure there's an easy solution in any case.

Michael.