Stick a fork in it

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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.

I still can't keep all these straight in my head--the words are all 
synonyms.  Hopefully that will change after I've used them a bit.


Sean