The Status of Const

[bearophile]

dsimcha:
> I've added some trivial convenience functions to Phobos that should have been
> there a long time ago and should go a long way towards making Rebindable more
> usable.  The other thing we need is bug fixes in alias this/opDot, which we need
> eventually anyhow.  Now, instead of doing something like this ugly, verbose,
> specify-things-twice code:
> 
> auto foo = Rebindable!(LongTypeName)(new LongTypeName);  // Shoot me.
> 
> You can do:
> 
> auto foo = rebindable(new LongTypeName);  // Sanity restored.

This was my bug report about it, I have closed it, thank you:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4471

Bye,
bearophile