any news on const/invariant?

[Denton Cockburn]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:43:21 +0300, Victor Tyurin wrote:

Well, we did discuss const/final/invariant quite a bit before it was
actually implemented.

I do agree though that we should be able to talk about it, even if we do
not play a role in the decision making.  Discussing these things helps
gain us more in-depth understanding, such that we are better prepared to
adjust to the changes.

> Walter, please, explain us, why you don't post any thoughts on important
>      language features like const?
> Why you don't tell us about concepts you want to change in constness? I
> think it will be very useful to discuss important features with
> community, before those will be implemented. As you can see, consts and
> invariants was not successful, i think, because it has not been
> discussed on conceptual stage...
> 
>> Denton Cockburn wrote:
>>> Any update on the status of the const/invariant changes?
>> 
>> Yes, it's about done.
>> 
>>> I'm using D 2.0 in some things, and would hate to learn to do it X
>>> way, only to have it changed on me.
>> 
>> While the semantic changes are extensive, I've found to my surprise
>> that little has to change in source code that uses const.