const?? When and why? This is ugly!

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Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> D is positioned very well, probably uniquely, to take advantage of a
> default-isolated model within a largely mutative language, and that is
> in no small part due to const and immutable. Other languages are
> struggling, see http://tinyurl.com/4apat7. I'm very glad that the tide
> on this group has effectively reversed with regard to the general
> opinion about const and immutable.
> 
> 
> Andrei


I'm not convinced, I'm just withholding judgment until there's a stable 2.0 implemented with an open-source compiler.

I suspect I'm not the only one here who thinks that way :)