Subject: Re: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:40:07 +0300

On 25.04.2020 05:21, Paul Eggert wrote:
> That depends on what other programming languages we're talking about. The
> current use of 'constant' in the manual corresponds reasonably closely to
> 'const' objects in C and C++.

Since we're talking about non-scalar values, do you mean constant 
pointers to (generally) mutable objects? Or a constant aggregate of 
mutable objects?

When a value is constant in C or C++, you can't change it.