const - Best practices

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/3/11 12:06 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
[quoting an older post of mine]
> As an aside, I know what it takes to define lazily computed state to
> work with
> const, but Walter is at the bottom of a 5000 TeV potential hole that spells
> like "this is like C++ mutable and C++ mutable is incorrect, therefore I
> will
> not process any information henceforth". So I am unable to even start
> explaining that to him. Besides, assuming Walter is convinced of the
> correctness of the feature, it's unclear whether it will pull its
> weight. It
> will complicate the language, and the benefits, while there, are rather
> subtle.

I am glad to announce that now Walter and me see eye to eye in the 
matter of lazily computable state. We also have a path to get there, but 
it's a fair amount of work.

Andrei