const(Object)ref is here!

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-12-08 03:43:45 -0500, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> said:

> Michel Fortin wrote:
>> After a recent discussion on this list about tail-const class 
>> references, it became rather clear that someone interested would have 
>> to implement the thing if we were to have it. So I did it. See 
>> enhancement request 5325 for an explanation and a patch.
>> <http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5325>
> 
> I think it's great that you're trying this out. I failed at getting 
> tail const to work. I don't think it can work, but I might be wrong.

Is there something I can do to convince you this patch works? Because 
it does. There is still some rough edges for which I wasn't sure what 
was the best solution -- head-modifiers not reflected in TypeInfo or 
with is(T == const) -- but they're relatively minor and easy to fix 
once we know what we want.

By the way, I pushed this into a separate branch in my dmd-objc git 
repository (this branch does not include the Objective-C-related 
changes). So you can get the source with the patch pre-applied this way:

	git clone http://git.michelf.com/dmd-objc/
	cd dmd-objc
	git checkout objconst

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
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