Perhaps we need to defer const for a while (3.0?)

0ffh frank at youknow.what.todo.interNETz
Thu Jan 3 07:49:47 PST 2008


Carlos Santander wrote:
> I wonder if we could have something like D 1.5 where some 2.0 features 
> could be backported, including macros, whenever they come, but 
> definitely not const.

Well, there is at least the admirable std2 effort of bb, who has
backported D2 Phobos to D1.
About the language itself, I suspect that at some point of time
GDC will start to grow D2 features. Then unloved features (like
the const you mention) could be hacked away from it. =)

regards, frank



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