const debacle

[Davidson Corry]

Davidson Corry wrote:
>     asif const(T)
> or perhaps expressed even better
>     locally const(T)

Gaah. I hate it when I say something, and then learn that I didn't know 
what I was talking about. (By reading the Web page "Here a const, there 
a const".)

I told you that I come from many years of C++. Well, I have been guilty 
of C++-think. 'const' in D doesn't mean what it means in C/C++. What 
I've been describing as "locally const" IS what D means by 'const'. What 
I've been thinking of as "(globally) const", D has a better name for, 
which is 'invariant'. And all of what I was asking for, D already gives me.

Which leaves what you folks were already talking about, to which I 
contributed only confusion. My apologies.

<sigh> RTFM. Then re-RTFM. Then THINK about what you R in TFM. Then 
UNDERSTAND TFM.

THEN speak. <sigh>

-- Dai