What is Invariant Good For?

[Koroskin Denis]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:33:55 +0400, Knud Soerensen  
<4tuu4k002 at sneakemail.com> wrote:

> Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ui1q/d_what_is_invariant_good_for/
>>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, I agree with some of the posts on the article
>> itself that "immutable" would be a better word to describe this concept
>> than "invariant." I've done some functional programming and I
>> immediately understand what immutable means (and why it is good). With
>> invariant I had to read about it first. The word invariant makes me
>> think of class invariants and loop invariants... a somewhat different
>> concept.
>>
>> Peter
>
> I agree invariant also leads my thoughts into other things.
>
> Walter says in a comments that there is alot of momentum behind  
> invariant.
>
> To verify that I have made a poll, please vote and let us see
> http://jyte.com/cl/immutable-would-be-better-than-invariant-in-the-d-programming-language
>
>

Nice idea but... I wouldn't sign up for the site just for a vote. Sorry.