Stick a fork in it

Chris Miller chris at dprogramming.com
Wed May 9 17:34:08 PDT 2007


On Wed, 09 May 2007 14:56:14 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> 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.


Well, hooray...

But I wonder about this const stuff. I remember a song similar to "here a  
const, there a final, everywhere an invariant final" ;)



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