How to generate a non-const method from a const method?

Question

While striving for const-correctness, I often find myself writing code such as this

class Bar;

class Foo {
public:
  const Bar* bar() const { /* code that gets          


        

Answer 1

My personal feeling is that if you are doing this a lot, there is something a bit suspect in your design. On the occasions I have had to do something similar, I've usually made the thing being accessed by the methods mutable.