Why is UObject::Serialize() not const?

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hello,
maybe this is a silly question, but why is UObject::Serialize not a const function? The thing is that I need to use it in a const method (or do some heavy changes), but it makes no sense to me. Why would you need to modify the state of an object while Serializing it?

Thanks

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because it handles both reading an writing .