const?? When and why? This is ugly!

[Jason House]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> grauzone wrote:
> >>> Sometimes, you have to leave the more spiffy features to languages 
> >>> like Erlang or Haskell which are suited better for this. For example, 
> >>> Erlang doesn't share any state by default, and in Haskell, everything 
> >>> is immutable. But they use very special mechanisms to make up for the 
> >>> problems caused by this, and that's why you can't just pick the 
> >>> cherries: it won't fit, it will feel unnatural, and everything will 
> >>> be a mess. It's a good idea to copy good features from other 
> >>> languages, but never forget where you come from.
> >>
> >> We plan to add the necessary mechanisms.
> > 
> > What mechanisms will these be? I'm sure others are curious too.
> 
> Still under discussion. We're considering for example message-passing 
> queues a la Erlang.
> 
> Andrei

Is there any chance of you/Walter posting your current conclusions and open issues? There are many on this list, including myself, who would enjoy participating in the design.