any news on const/invariant?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Mon Nov 26 15:04:10 PST 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> Denton Cockburn wrote:
>> Any update on the status of the const/invariant changes?
>>
>> 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.
> 
> You can get a preview of the new way things are going to look by 
> browsing the latest source of Phobos from dsource.
> 
> I didn't spend too much looking through the changes, but it looked like 
> D is going to be switching to the C++ style of flagging 'this' as const 
> by putting 'const' at the end of the function signature rather than the 
> beginning.

At the beginning will still work for function types. The at the end 
option is there for those who are building complex type declarations.



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