DMD 2.000 alpha release

[BLS]

Seems to me that D is going into the wrong direction.
Are you really sure that strings should be inmutable by default?
Not in my world. In my world an invariant string is the *Exeption*.

I hate that feature because it s nature is /pessimistic/ and says "Do 
not trust the programmer".

So please tell me what do we have to expect from D 2 ?
More CPP like programming refined with syntactic sugar,or something that 
makes D comparable to Java s useablility ?
Bjoern



Walter Bright schrieb:
> This is an alpha release to try out the const/final/invariant stuff.
> 
> The current definition of string is:
> 
>     alias const(char)[] string;
> 
> Andrei has argued strongly to make it invariant. I think he's probably 
> right, and that change might happen next.
> 
> The documentation isn't thorough, I don't want to spend too much time on 
> it until I'm sure we've got the design right.
> 
> Treat this as an alpha release. Although it passes its test suite, I'm 
> sure there are plenty of bugs remaining. Phobos also has not been 
> thoroughly gone through to put const/final in all the right places.
> 
> See http://www.digitalmars.com/d/final-const-invariant.html
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.000.zip
> 
> Expect changes to this. Much more to come! For stability, I recommend 
> sticking with the 1.0 series, which I will maintain with bug fixes.