D const design rationale

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 22 de junio a las 01:07 me escribiste:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> >Walter Bright wrote:
> >>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/const.html
> >So in short, 'const' protects data and 'final' freezes references.  How do these two apply to an int declaration?
> >    const final int x = 5;
> >Is either a compiler error? are they synonyms in this case?
> 
> It's not an error, it's just redundant.

Shouldn't be better to be an error? So it's more clear that final makes
sense only for reference types.

Even more, aren't:

const int x = 5;
final int x = 5;
invariant int x = 5;

all the same?

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