Immutable fields

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday 02 November 2010 19:24:29 bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
> > Why would it really matter though?
> 
> I guess you have not followed my link with more explanations, right? :-)
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

I don't really get what you're doing there or what the problem is. You cast one 
struct to another struct and it retained the same value for x. That seems 
logical enough. You're just viewing that chunk of memory as a new type. You 
didn't actually change what's there. My first reaction to seeing that sort of 
cast though is that it's a bad idea anyway, though I guess that whether an 
immutable variable has storage could affect the result in such a case. Generally 
though, I would have argued that if you weren't going to set the variable with 
the constructor, it should probably be an enum anyway.

- Jonathan M Davis