std.xml should just go

[so]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:44:51 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> so wrote:
>>> Examine the API of a function in a library. It says it doesn't modify  
>>> anything reachable through its arguments, but is that true? How would  
>>> you know? And how would you know if the API doc doesn't say?
>>  You are right, but try to look at this from another angle (probably i  
>> am not making any sense here). Should "D const" be perceived this way?
>> When i say "const A", it broadly means don't assign to this.
>
> That's "head const", which is what C++ has. The const system in C++ does  
> not work. If you view const strictly as a storage class, that fails as  
> soon as you introduce pointers.

No no! I mean the way it works in D. I tried to say that: because of the  
semantic of C++ const, it maybe maybe a good idea to have signatures but  
with the semantics in D const it is not that needed.