about const and immutable (again)

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

Also, this would be a whole lot easier if D got a full built-in tuple
support, because then all functions would always take a single
argument. :-)

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:27:16 -0400, Gor Gyolchanyan
> <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I see. Thanks for the detailed answer.
>
> I should clarify one point, I realized I am somewhat inaccurate on the
> reason the type is set to immutable(dchar).  In fact, nobody actually wrote
> the immutable(dchar) function, it's just that the element type is
> immutable(dchar).  However, the reasons why someone would want to create a
> function that takes an immutable(dchar) function are as I stated -- so you
> don't accidentally change the value.
>
> Still no excuse that delegates cannot be implicitly cast to compatible
> versions.
>
>> I just looked up Wikipedia for lambdas in different languages and
>> found out, that C# has an awesome syntax for that:
>>
>> x => x * x
>> (x, y) => x == y
>> (int x, string s) => s.Length > x
>> () => SomeMethod()
>> n => { string s = n + " " + "World"; Console.WriteLine(s); }
>
> In the not so distant past, Walter explored different ways to improve the
> lambda syntax on this news group (which included similarities to the above).
>  This usually means he is considering adding that change, let's hope so :)
>
> -Steve
>