Do we need a time-out in D evolution?

[Walter Bright]

Deewiant wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> const by default is too big a change, and I'm reluctant to do something
>> so far out of the mainstream of these types of languages.
> 
> Perl 6 has const by default for subroutine parameters. Okay, so it's not "this
> type of language", but it's worth mentioning as it's still _Perl_, a language
> steadily a couple or more places above D in the TIOBE index.

By "these types of languages", I mean C-style compiled languages. There 
are many functional languages where const is the default.