Immutability and other attributes, please review

[Timon Gehr]

On 06/14/2012 06:42 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I wish that you could do
>
> auto f = new float(2.1);
>
> and therefore
>
> auto f = new immutable(float)(2.1);
>
> but you can't.

This seems to be an arbitrary limitation.
Imho it should be fixed. Probably it was missed because allocating a
primitive type on the heap is not a very common operation.