Stepping back and looking at constness from another angle.

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Craig Black schrieb am 2007-06-05:
> Guess I should put in my 2 cents also, since there are so many people who 
> seem to dislike the idea of const in D.  I am a C++ programmer that uses 
> const a lot.  I am the primary author of a very big API that is used by 
> other developers.
>
> There are cases where things get complicated, but for the most part, const 
> really helps.  It helps that the compiler enforces the rules.  So I like the 
> idea of adding const to D in some form.  I admit I don't understand all the 
> details of D's const implementation, but I don't think that adding const in 
> D is a bad thing.

I don't work with much C++ code, however when I do it is mostly
maintenance work of poorly documented code and "const" really helps.
Without "const" I'd have to read much more code to understand what
is going on, with "const" functions and "const" arguments the job is
vastly easier. Yes, C++'s "const" can be subverted in several ways
but is a fairly good indication of the intended behaviour.

Thomas

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