Extended Type Design.

[Bruno Medeiros]

Tyler Knott wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>
>> What?? If f is 'const', how are any of those "f.s =" assignments allowed?
>>
> 
> Because f is a POD (Plain Old Data) structure and not a reference you 
> can modify the data in the structure, but because it's declared const 
> you can't modify any data referenced.  If you want f.s to be 
> unassignable then declare f to be final Foo, though you can then modify 
> the data referenced by f.s so f.s[0] = 'a'; becomes legal.
> 
> For example:
> 
> struct Foo
> {
>     char[] s = "hello";
>     char c;
> }
> 

Duh, of course. I misread and was thinking Foo was a class and not a struct.



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