Stick a fork in it
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Thu May 10 13:00:45 PDT 2007
renoX wrote:
> Walter Bright a écrit :
>> Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
>>> Actually, that'll be 'final'. The new 'invariant' will mean "this
>>> *data* absolute does not change", and the new 'const' will mean "this
>>> is an *immutable view* into data owned by other code, which *may*
>>> change". (If I'm remembering/understanding right.)
>>
>> You're right.
>
> If the keywords are really like this, it's a bit weird, IMHO the most
> interesting one is 'invariant' which happens to be also the one with the
> longest name..
But invariant is also the one most likely to appear on a line all by
itself with just a single variable and a simple initializer. And most
uses will be close to the left margin I suspect. And even if invariant
is the most interesting, I think const will still be the most used.
--bb
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