any news on const/invariant?

[Janice Caron]

On 11/27/07, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> > I agree.  I don't get why we need two ways to express it.  What's the
> > benefit of writing const out in front?
>
> 1. It's semantically consistent.
>
> 2. It enables you to 'group' const member functions:
>
> const
> {
>      int foo();
>      int bar();
> }

Oh, well if you put it like that, I have to agree with you! :-)

The question then becomes, why do we need const at the back?