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

[Bill Baxter]

0ffh wrote:
> 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

Thanks, frank.

I'd love to see the D2.0 features that don't break existing code added 
to D1.0, like the new string literals and __traits, and foreach(i; 0..10).

--bb