Extended Type Design.

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Benji Smith wrote:
> kris wrote:
>> 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 :)
> 
> Bingo. It's like trying to describe something as "impossible 
> impossible". If the first usage of the word didn't really convey 
> impossibility, then you were using the wrong word to begin with.

You're "dead dead" right! :o)

Andrei