From: Warren Young Date: March 20 2006 12:28pm Subject: Re: Row::at() doesn't take const int? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/5547 Message-Id: <441E9FDC.80600@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit alan.alvarez@stripped wrote: > Is there a reason why Row::at() doesn't take constant unsigned ints? > same with the [] operator. Since size_type is a typedef for unsigned int, I guess you're complaining that it isn't const? What value could making it const possibly provide? Constness only matters with reference and pointer parameters.