Re: const-ness patch for guile-1.3

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

Greg Badros <badros@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> P.S.  If people are interested, I'll make the same change to dev guile; 
> I just want to do it when no one else is messing with the tree or hoping 
> to commit as it's a rather pervasive change to the code that will result 
> in plenty of merge conflicts if we don't coordinate.

I think that's a good idea.  Jim's already checked in some patches
from me since 1.3 to do just this sort of thing.  My approach was more
limited though -- look for read-write data in the compiled library and
see if it can be made read-only, and propagate the constness as
needed.  Your approach definitely sounds more thorough.

Ken