Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Anyone who sees the const keyword in Java would logically assume its original intention was to ...

Const (constant) in programming is a keyword that defines a variable or pointer as unchangeable. A const may be applied in an object declaration to indicate that the object, unlike a standard variable ...

It was before my involvement in SWIG, but I assume this approach originated because scripting languages typically don't have the concept of const as part of the type system so SWIG would have had to ...