What's the point of const pointers?

Question

I\'m not talking about pointers to const values, but const pointers themselves.

I\'m learning C and C++ beyond the very basic stuff and just until today I realized t

Answer 1

Your question is really more about why define any variable as a const not just const pointer parameter to a function. The same rules apply here as when you define any variable as constant, if its a parameter to function or member variable or a local variable.

In your particular case, functionally it doesn't make difference like in many other cases when you declare a local variable as const but it does put a restriction that you can't modify this variable.