r180860 - [ObjC declaration documentation] declaration of

[jahanian]

On May 1, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:

> 
> On May 1, 2013, at 11:51 , John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> On May 1, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure it's right to remove 'const'—consider global string constant declarations:
>>> 
>>> extern NSString * const MyNotificationName;
>>> 
>>> I think you'll have to explicitly remove ObjC lifetime attrs only.
>> 
>> Why is this a problem?  You think the user wants to see "cannot initialize object of type 'NSMutableString *' with expression of type 'NSString * const'"?
>> 
>> As long as the value's been lvalue-to-rvalue-converted, I see no reason to report top-level qualification.
> 
> Hm, point. I didn't realized this was just for rvalues. Thanks for the explanation.

Yes, but when we are providing documentation, we want to preserve the ‘const’- ness:

@interface NSMutableArray : NSArray 
{
//! This is the name.
  NSString *const Name;
}
//! This is initWithLabel comment.
- (NSString *)initWithLabel:(NSString * const)label;
@end

- Fariborz


> 
> Jordan

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