Const sucks

[Walter Bright]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> What, exactly, is the use case that needs a solution?
> 
> Here's another use case, which is significantly different than the other 
> (there should be lots more to be found). Say you have a Person class, 
> which has a name, and for whatever reasons you want the name be a String 
> class instead of const(char)[]. Then you have:
> 
>   class Person {
>     const(String) name;
>     ...
> 
> but now how do you change the name of the Person?...

I'd redesign String so it holds invariant data, then just have:

class Person {
     String name;
     ...