Constants, Aliases

[Alexander Panek]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 
> 
> Alexander Panek wrote:
>> Lutger wrote:
>>> Xinok wrote:
>>>> The problem with the const keyword is it doesn't guarantee the 
>>>> expression will
>>>> be constant.
>>>
>>> It doesn't? How can you modify a const var then? (in D)
>>
>> You can modify const variables that are not set directly at 
>> declaration (write-once constants) just by getting their address and 
>> modifying them through another variable/pointer.
> 
> So what!!
> You can violate class encapsulation using pointers too, in fact you can 
> even mess the v-table.

Hahaha, yea. I don't get what const would change there, either. X-P