Yeah it kind of feels dirty having all these mutable variables around after doing any functional programming at all. I've found using const a lot also goes han

Yeah it kind of feels dirty having all these mutable variables around after doing any functional programming at all. I've found using const a lot also goes hand-in-hand with raii. If a member of a class is const it must be initialized in the constructor, and it just seems to make me code a bit more "hygienically".