On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:41:05PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> > Well, it's mostly const - it's const unless the rule itself starts
> > fiddling with stuff which I'd have expected to be the exception rather
> > than the rule.

> Well, the only rule is that rule (function) rules the meaning of the
> private pointer :)

Ugh, that's pretty vile really.  But anyway...