Extended Type Design.

kris foo at bar.com
Fri Mar 16 13:10:03 PDT 2007


Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> 
>> We've shoved keywords like "readonly" and "view" for a while, and they 
>> just added more confusion than cleared, at a high cost. If (as I 
>> suspect) super const appears relatively infrequently, it might be fine 
>> to just encode it as the mildly verbose "super const". In fact, it's 
>> shorter than "keepyourgrubbyhandsoff". :o)
> 
> 
> How about “const const”?  No new keywords, no reuse of keywords in 
> disparate contexts, and equally noticeable to the eye.
> 
> --Joel

The whole things about adding *more* constantness to const screams one 
thing very loudly: the applicability of the word "const", in this 
context, is borked :)



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