The Status of Const

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:20:55 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/13/2010 06:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>> I like how it reads naturally. I think it's also syntactically
>>>> unambiguous. Walter, please give this one some attention, I'd love to
>>>> see this fixed.
>>>
>>> This was endlessly discussed maybe 3 years ago. I probably invested over
>>> a hundred hours in trying to make it work.
>>>
>>> It doesn't work.
> 
> Perhaps part of this is the reluctance to reexamine something which was 
> hard to prove correct given the ideas at the time?
> 
> However, the idea is attainable.  For the simple fact that we have 
> tail-const references in other parts of the language.  All that is 
> missing is syntax.
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This seems to be a misquote. You are replying to Walter, not me.

Andrei