Is This a Solution For the Const/Rebindable Issue?

[Mehrdad]

== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schveiguy at yahoo.com)'s article
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:36:21 -0400, Mehrdad <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > An idea came to my mind for fixing the const/rebindable issue, and I'm
> > not sure if it's a good idea or not but I thought I'd mention it. I'm
> > not sure if it's been mentioned before, but a quick search didn't make
> > it seem like it has been.
> It has been brought up, a long time ago, by me on the phobos mailing list
> (the idea to just assume const(Object) is rebindable, not the final
> thing).  I think it was on the ML that Andrei maintained, so it's archive
> is gone.
> I had the exact same thoughts as you, and Walter found a perfectly
> iron-clad reason why it doesn't work.  I can't say I remember the exact
> reason (maybe he does off the top of his head), but it definitely killed
> the idea quite well.  So it doesn't work unfortunately :(  I know the lack
> of reference/reason is unsatisfying, but I hope you can trust me that to
> pursue this is not going to go anywhere, and I don't want to re-argue it
> again...
> -Steve

No problem, I won't. :) But if you remember the reason, please post it since I'm curious!