Why does Unconst exist?
Tejas
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Wed Jul 28 06:00:06 UTC 2021
On Wednesday, 28 July 2021 at 05:52:02 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 7/27/21 10:38 PM, Tejas wrote:
>> When I initially saw it, I was hopeful that it would allow me
>> to bypass some of the restrictions of ```const``` , but it
>> literally just takes a type and strips the ```const``` from
>> it, you can't pass a variable to it in order to get rid of
>> ```const``` . What use does it serve then?
>>
>> https://dlang.org/library/std/traits/unconst.html
>
> Searching under /usr/include/dmd reveals that it is used in the
> implementations of array property 'dup' and 'copyEmplace',
> which makes sense: We want copies to be mutable.
>
> Ali
So it's only useful for the compiler developers? I thought Walter
was 100% against introducing any dependency to phobos in dmd?
Shouldn't this be part of ```core.internal``` package?
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