Do we need a time-out in D evolution?

[Dave]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:f4gg3j$hc$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> 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.
> 
> "These types of languages"?  You mean "C++"?  What other languages are like 
> D, anyway? 
> 
> 

Just about any other imperative language (BASIC, Fortran, Pascal, Ada, Oberon and of course C, C++, 
C# and Java, the LAMP languages, yada, yada, etc...), so Walter may have a point.

OTOH, since 'mutable by default' has been done ad nauseum for imperative languages, and the above is 
really an onerous list to try and compete against for mind-share, maybe D 2.0 _should_ try 'const by 
default'.