Re: "discards qualifiers" is less helpful than "discards const"

["L. Peter Deutsch" <ghost at aladdin dot com>]

> Sorry, I apologize.  It was just bad English; it's not my native language,
> and I often make mistakes.

No harm done.

> But simply reverting to `const', as I interpreted your proposition, is
> wrong, because, as you certainly know, there are other qualifiers, and
> telling the user that his code is discarding `const' when, in fact, it's
> discarding `volatile', is not only unclear and misleading, it's actually
> wrong.

Sorry if I was unclear.  What I meant to say was: I want a message that
tells me (in all cases) what qualifier(s) is/are being discarded.  In the
case where `const' is being discarded, a message that says "discards
qualifiers" is less helpful than a message that says "discards const".  Of
course, if some other qualifier is being discarded, I want the correct
qualifier in the message, not `const'.

				Thanks -

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