From 684f48e14c8c7d01c89e81282eb903a63f43f579 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Loriot?= <sebastien.loriot@cgal.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 13:41:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] const_cast is useless

---
 Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/Surface_mesh.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/Surface_mesh.h b/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/Surface_mesh.h
index ecd062b55ed..4567818aa8a 100644
--- a/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/Surface_mesh.h
+++ b/Surface_mesh/include/CGAL/Surface_mesh/Surface_mesh.h
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ private: //------------------------------------------------------ iterator types
             return this->hnd_ == other.hnd_;
         }
 
-        Index_ dereference() const { return const_cast<Index_&>(hnd_); }
+        Index_ dereference() const { return hnd_; }
 
         Index_ hnd_;
         const Surface_mesh* mesh_;