DMD 1.004 release

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Lionello Lunesu" <lionello at lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message 
> news:ephjmf$12sd$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>
>> Shouldn't string literals be forced "const"? Even D's limited const could 
>> do that. To create a mutable copy you'd be forced to used .dup.
>>
>> const char[] either = "asdfsadf";
>> char[] or = "asdfsd".dup;
>>
> 
> That wouldn't help, because even if you pass a const char[] into a function 
> that takes a char[], that function can still modify it.  The const goes 
> away. 

This was kind of "forced by design" because const was a storage class 
not allowed in function arguments. D will do the right thing as soon as 
it gets full-fledged const.

Andrei