Fixing const arrays

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/11/11 9:46 AM, dsimcha wrote:
> On 12/10/2011 4:47 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We decided to fix this issue by automatically shedding the top-level
>> const when passing an array or a pointer by value into a function.
>
> Really silly question: Why not do the same for primitives (int, float,
> char, etc.) or even structs without indirection? I've seen plenty of
> code that blows up when passed an immutable double because it tries to
> mutate its arguments. About 1.5 years ago I fixed a bug like this in
> std.math.pow().

Yes, that would be good to do as well.

Andrei