Const Ideas

[Craig Black]

"Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.206.1196453000.2338.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> Well, I'm still gunning for
>
>    const (X)& x;
>
> for mutable refs to const classes. Since I come from a C++ background,
> & means "reference of" to me, and this reads straightforwardly as "x
> is a reference to const X".
>
> Of course, x would be a reference even /without/ the ampersand - such
> is the nature of classes in D. But writing it explicitly allows one to
> put it outside the brackets

I now better understand why you proposed this syntax.  I guess it's not so 
bad.  I can't think of anything better.