C++

[Ameer Armaly]

"John Reimer" <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:e841ch$169g$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Deewiant wrote:
>> Deewiant wrote:
>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>> I've become convinced that the "default everything to const" method 
>>>> seems ideal, but this seems like something that should really be done 
>>>> before 1.0 if it's going to happen?
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>> I agree. Walter posted somewhere in comp.lang.c++.moderated (I think it 
>>> was there) that he thinks he should have made D like this from the 
>>> start, but that it's too late now. With that, I disagree. We're not at 
>>> 1.0 yet: it's not
>>>  too late to break even every single line of D code out there.
>>
>> I found the post in question, BTW. Here's the Google Groups link:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/tree/browse_frm/thread/d6695737a74e1853/18dc841928a6eee3?rnum=131&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.c%2B%2B.moderated%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fd6695737a74e1853%2F840b0deea2987ee5%3Flnk%3Dst%26rnum%3D1%26#doc_3ff8dedacef55e17
>>
>> In summary:
>>
>> Andrei Alexandrescu says "Why, then, didn't D make const the default? C++ 
>> had a
>> good reason - C compatibility."
>>
>> Walter responds: "I should have. Too much water under the bridge for that 
>> now."
>>
>> In the same post Walter also acknowledges that "There has been some talk 
>> in the
>> D newsgroups of doing that, but it has the potential to be extremely 
>> disruptive."
>
>
> Absolutely. we definitely need it.  Walter, I hope you will reconsider. 
> Many of us are more than willing to accept any of those potential 
> disruptions.  Success often comes only with risk. :)
>
> You've got this far with such an incredible language, why not take it all 
> the way?
>
I agree. D is still in the "experimental" or "beta" phase, that is to say 
you shouldn't be surprised if a change breaks your code; I'm sure most if 
not all of us here know that, and if you don't by this time, well...
> -JJR