const debacle

[Bill Baxter]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 22/03/2008, Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar at igesund.net> wrote:
>> Optlink doesn't and Walter has stated in the past that optlink will not be
>>  developed further.
> 
> Then Walter has either contradicted himself or changed his mind! :-)
> No biggie - happens to us all.
> 
> I can't be bothered to hunt it down right now, but I can distinctly
> remember Walter saying that the solution to one particular problem
> (template bloat caused by e.g. int, const(int) and invariant(int)
> being distinct) would be to improve the linker. So I suspect this
> avenue is not so closed as you might have thought.

Yeh, but saying the solution "would be to improve the linker" is 
different from saying "I'm going to fix the linker".

What I recall Walter saying in the past is that he would love to 
_rewrite_ the linker, but it is just not practical because of the vast 
amounts of time it would take to do so.

--bb