D const design rationale

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Oskar Linde wrote:
>> Walter Bright skrev:
>>>
>>> readonly is a synonym for const, so no improvement there.
>>
>> Read-only isn't synonymous with constant.
> 
> Consider ROM, i.e. "Read Only Memory".

"read only" doesn't say anything about the scope of the property.  It's 
only equivalent to "constant" if that scope is equal to the scope of the 
data it references.


Sean