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Ok, thanks! Also it’s a contrived example I got the point. That absolutely makes sense.

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I am currently working on week 3 and was wondering about const_cast and had the same question in mind as Fabio.
I can see the point of dealing with legacy software and have in mind a case where legacy software is e.g. returning a const variable X which I want to modify. So I would use a const_cast to get rid of the constness. However, I can not see the point of casting away const from X if any modification of X would lead to undefined behaviour. So can you give an example where casting away const makes sense?
Thanks in advance. I hope I have not missed an important point in your conversation.

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