const(FAQ)

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 28 de marzo a las 15:33 me escribiste:
> 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

About "Why aren't function parameters const by default?":

Why aren't *all* variables const by default?

It was discussed a long time ago and AFAIK most people liked it.


And about "Why not use readonly to mean read only view?":

Why not use view to mean read only view?

As discussed recently? I don't think "because it's not that clear that
'view' means 'read only view'" is a good enough reason for changing the
const meaning to make it mean 'read only view'. If words are arbitrary, at
least this scheme let you keep the old const meaning...


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