libexpr: Remove non-const overload of listElems (backport #13360)#13633
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This overload isn't actually necessary anywhere and doesn't make much sense. The pointers to `Value`s are themselves const, but the `Value`s are mutable. A non-const member function implies that the object itself can be modified but this doesn't make much sense considering the return type: `Value * const * `, which is a pointer to a constant array of pointers to mutable values. (cherry picked from commit 7b46eb9)
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This overload isn't actually necessary anywhere and doesn't make much sense. The pointers to
Values are themselves const, but theValues are mutable.A non-const member function implies that the object itself can be modified but this doesn't make much sense considering the return type:
Value * const *, which is a pointer to a constant array of pointers to mutable values.cc @roberth, @edolstra as you've been cleaning up the meaning of const throughout the codebase.
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