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@vsoftco, yeah sure. It is a good point to use mutable members when you want to cache some calculations that is done in const methods in order to get a better response time.

antonpp
– antonpp

2015-04-12 01:08:39 +00:00
Commented Apr 12, 2015 at 1:08
Actually I take it back, you cannot call non-const member functions from inside const methods, no matter what. I misread the question, upvoted your answer.

vsoftco
– vsoftco

2015-04-12 01:20:02 +00:00
Commented Apr 12, 2015 at 1:20
You can actually const_cast<Foo*>(this) and call a const method, but it only works ok on non-const objects. On const objects it leads to undefined behaviour.

vsoftco
– vsoftco

2015-04-12 02:04:16 +00:00
Commented Apr 12, 2015 at 2:04

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