For D's manifesto: transitivity of shared, const and immutable

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Sep 19 11:50:08 PDT 2010


Justin Johansson wrote:
> Surely it would be a good thing to promote D's transitivity
> of shared, const and immutable in its manifesto, but how
> can this possible done when we all know the semantics of the
> same are broken by syntactic limitations?  (Well, at least that
> is my analysis.)

The manifesto is a statement of guiding principles and goals, not of solutions. 
It gives us something to compare with the reality of the implementation, and 
shows where things need improvement.


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