Question

Pre C++ 11, I often needed to implement two very-alike variants of a method to deal with const and non-const usage scenarios of the class/struct:

struct my_struct_t{
     ....
     float_t& at( uint32_t row, uint32_t col)
     {
         return *(((float_t*)((uint8_t*)numbers+row*row_stride)) + col);
     }

     float_t const& at( uint32_t row, uint32_t col) const
     {
         return *(((float_t*)((uint8_t*)numbers+row*row_stride)) + col);
     }

};

Has this changed in C++ 11?

Answer 1

No.
It is evident in the Standard Library (it still uses explicit const methods).