Shoud a method that waits for a change of state be const?
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In a multithreaded scenario, I have a method like this:
bool WaitForChange( time_duration WaitTime ) const;
This method waits either until the state of the object has changed and returns true, or until the timeout times out (how do you say that?) and returns false.
My intuition is, that const is to protect against unwanted side-effects of the method itself, so this is fine. But then again, some user might think that the state of the could not have changed, since the method is declared const. Is that user stupid, or should I make the method non-const in order to avoid confusion?
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