const as per popular demand

charles charlie at d.com
Sat Sep 15 13:36:51 PDT 2007


Good try though!



Carlos Santander wrote:
> Brad Roberts escribió:
>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Carlos Santander wrote:
>>
>>> First, let me say that I haven't finished reading all those const 
>>> posts. I still have 129 to go.
>>>
>>> What made me remember this was a post by Steven Schveighoffer where 
>>> he asked
>>> "what's wrong with mutable?"
>>>
>>> Three months ago there was a poll here:
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=54361 
>>>
>>> Mostly everyone agreed to be willing to at least try const by 
>>> default. If we
>>> all are in the trying-stuff bandwagon, why can't we try that and just 
>>> see what
>>> happens?
>>>
>>> I'll go back now to try to catch up. TGIF!
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Carlos Santander Bernal
>>
>> The debate about the default state is irrelevant until the meaning of 
>> the state is actually agreed upon, or atleast an implementation is set 
>> that is likely to stick around.  In other words, default to what sort 
>> of const?
>>
> 
> Sigh, guess you're right...
> 
>> Now, back to the regularly scheduled lack of agreements on what sorts 
>> of constantness should exist.
>>
>> Later,
>> Brad
> 
> 



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