const?? When and why? This is ugly!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jason House wrote:
> 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.

Most of the burden is on Bartosz.

Andrei