any news on const/invariant?

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Ok, but that seems to differ from your default position on other topics. 
>  Usually I see you saying we should do things to not confuse C++ 
> coders.  "If it looks like C++ it should behave like C++" is the 
> impression I've gotten in the past.   But maybe you're gaining enough 
> confidence in D these days that you're not as concerned about that any 
> more. :-)
> 
> ... So can we talk about the fall-through default in switch statements 
> again?  :-)

No, because to break things in a way that results in an error message is 
ok, but breaking them so things silently behave differently is not ok.


> And the only commentary I've heard on that feature from D users has been 
> negative.  There could be a "silent majority" in favor of it, but I 
> doubt it.

But I've seen converted code that used it.