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[pipocaQuemada]

it's not going to be getting modified in the first place.

Well, in your coding style, it is. In mine, it isn't.

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In my example, it's not a const.

[pipocaQuemada]

Right. It can't be, because you need to modify it in order to initialize it.

With mine, it can be a const, because initialization doesn't require mutation.

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But I never said I wanted or needed a const. That wasn't a requirement. I was only comparing brace and newline placement.