Yet yet yet yet another thread about const and immutable.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

Why don't then change then? const-declared variables would make a lot
more sense to be always placed in mutable memory, so that they could
be used as logical consts.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 12:15 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>
>> What's the difference between const-declared variable and
>> immutable-declared variable?
>>
>> module a;
>>
>> const(int) a;
>> immutable(int) b;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>> }
>
> Both cannot change, but one is typed as const and the other as immutable.
> You usually don't want to declare const variables that way, because they
> cannot be passed by reference to immutable even though technically they
> would be immutable.
>