const?? When and why? This is ugly!

[Denis Koroskin]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:55:18 +0300, novice2 <sorry at noem.ail> wrote:

> Denis Koroskin Wrote:
>
>> // file 1
>> char[] a = "hello";
>> a[4] = '!';
>>
>> // file 2
>> writefln("hello"); // prints 'hell!'
>
>
> bad example :)
> why so behaviour? imho, it may be occur bacause of bad compiler design  
> only. like C compiler for space optimization collect all mentioning of  
> similar strings and allocate only one for all of occurence. and even in  
> this case it must allocate it in non-writable memory section.

Yeah, that's why it is forbidden. It won't compile in D2.