Proposal for std.path replacement

Bekenn leaveme at alone.com
Thu Mar 3 22:41:47 PST 2011


On 3/3/2011 7:23 PM, Graham St Jack wrote:
> Ok, I don't mind supporting wchar and dchar in addition to char,
> especially if Windows insists on using them.
>
> My main issue here is with the constness of the parameters. I think the
> correct parameter to pass is const C[]. This has the advantages of:
> * Accepting both mutable and immutable data.
> * Declares that the function won't mutate the data.
> * Declares that the function doesn't expect the data to be immutable.

Agreed; I think I might modify that slightly to "in" instead of "const", 
but it means the exact same thing.

>
> Once upon a time "in" meant const scope. Does anyone know what it means
> now?

"in" is a synonym for a non-parenthesized const.


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