Is all this Invarient **** er... stuff, premature optimisation?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

<p9e883002 at sneakemail.com> wrote
> Hi all,
>
> 'scuse me for not being familiar with previous or ongoing discussion on 
> this
> subject, but I'm just coming back to D after a couple of years away.
>
> I have some strings read in from external source that I need to convert to
> uppercase. A quick look at Phobos and I find std.string has a toupper 
> method.
> <very good example case removed>

This is all not an issue if Walter adopts 'scoped const' contracts.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1961

The current con for this method is that it is another 'confusing' const 
syntax.  So is what I propose more confusing, or is what this poor developer 
had to go through more confusing?

-Steve