Stick a fork in it

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Wed May 9 13:22:12 PDT 2007


bobef wrote:
> What is invariant?
> 
> 
> Walter Bright Wrote:
> 
>> I'm currently working on implementing const/invariant. It's becoming 
>> clear that this is a pervasive change, and will cause binary 
>> incompatibility with existing code. I'm trying to minimize any source 
>> incompatibilities.
>>
>> The first few iterations of const support probably will have lots of 
>> problems before it gets usable.
>>
>> This means that dmd will have to fork into a 1.x maintenance version and 
>> a 2.x beta.
> 

Sounds like a good chance to go ahead and make 'const' the default!
Did you and Andrei discuss that idea at all?  Or has it been abandoned 
for good?

--bb



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