Article: Why Const Sucks

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:20:56AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 06, 2018 09:41:42 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce 
> wrote:
> > As they say, hindsight is always 20/20.  But it wasn't so easy to
> > foresee the consequences at the time when the very concept of ranges
> > was still brand new.
> 
> Except that even worse, I'd argue that hindsight really isn't 20/20.
> We can see a lot of the mistakes that were made, and if we were
> starting from scratch or otherwise willing to break a lot of code, we
> could change stuff like the range API based on the lessons learned.
> But we'd probably still screw it up, because we wouldn't have the
> experience with the new API to know where it was wrong.
[...]

Well, that means *hind*sight is still 20/20: we see where we went wrong,
but *fore*sight is still blurry, because what we think is the solution
to that wrong may not turn out to be a good solution later. :-D


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