const(FAQ)

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Question:

In my limited use of const thus far, I've found that "ignoring" or "just 
not using" it is not as possible as suggested.  This is because the 
standard library imposes it.

Or, in other words, if I ignore const and pretend it doesn't exist, 
Phobos will wake me up from my sleep whenever I use a function that, 
e.g. returns a string.

I may be mistaken but this has been my experience.  Not that I don't 
want to use const, necessarily.

-[Unknown]


Walter Bright wrote:
> The same questions about const come up repeatedly, so I decided that it 
> was past time to put up a FAQ dedicated to const. The initial version is 
> far from complete, but it's a start.
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/const-faq.html