[webkit-dev] Do we have a style preference about const member functions?

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>
> Looks to me like these fulfill the requirement of "do we ever use const
> pointers to these objects". So the next step is to fix up const member
> functions that inappropriately return non-const pointers to objects in the
> same tree (or that can otherwise get a back pointer). Make the functions
> non-const, then add const variants returning a const pointer if needed.
>
> I'm curious if there are any clients for const pointers to DOM nodes.
>

All functions passed to enclosingNodeOfType in htmlediting.cpp are such
clients:

Node* enclosingNodeOfType(const Position& p, bool (*nodeIsOfType)(const Node
*), EditingBoundaryCrossingRule rule)

It takes a boolean function that takes const pointer to a DOM node.  It is *
critical *that nodeIsOfType does not modify DOM because we use a raw pointer
to keep track of the current node when walking up the tree.

- Ryosuke
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