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[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I've suggested "view" in the past, and there must be others.

"view" doesn't imply that one cannot change it through that view.

> Alternately,
> invent a word as you've said or come up with syntax that doesn't require
> a keyword to indicate this concept.  Truth be told however, my issue with
> the keywords in 2.0 has more to do with the change in meaning of "const"
> than with the words themselves.

const in D pretty much has the same meaning as C++ const as far as being 
a readonly view. The C++ meaning has a lot of momentum behind it.

> My initial response above was simply an
> expression of surprise that you felt the words all had identical meanings
> and yet we were using them to represent different things.

I meant they have identical english meanings.