Poll: Would you like to try const-by-default or not?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> * "having same type defaults is better for generics"
>>   (maybe...but I'm not convinced. If you have powerful enough 
>> metaprogramming it shouldn't be hard to strip const from a type tuple, 
>> or add it.  And people do far more programming than meta-programming.)
> 
> This is a good point. With const-by-default, you have function type 
> declarations behaving *fundamentally* different from other declarations. 
> Given the metaprogramming ability to use tuples to declare parameters, 
> doing function template type deduction for parameters, and type 
> inference on parameters, making this fundamentally different may wind up 
> really screwing things up.

Will using tuples to declare function parameters allow us to declare 
ref/inout parameters?

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