The Status of Const

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
news:i424ac$27nb$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Graham St Jack wrote:
>> Is there any plan to introduce some way of having a mutable reference to 
>> an immutable class object on the heap? Do others see this as a problem at 
>> all?
>
> For embedded microsystems (i.e. with ROM/RAM) this is a problem.  It
> is a common use case to have a mutable reference (in RAM) to some
> objects that reside in ROM.  Obviously anything in ROM is guaranteed
> by hardware to be immutable.  So, yes, this is a problem in a
> wider sense.

Would there every really be anything in ROM though that would be appropriate 
as a class though, as opposed to, say, a struct? I've never heard of an 
object with a vtable being stored in ROM.