thoughts on immutability in D

[Walter Bright]

On 9/23/2011 3:46 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On 23/09/11 6:48 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 9/22/2011 4:39 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>> Walter:
>> "logical const" in C++ is faith-based programming.
>
> I think you're exaggerating it's uselessness.
>
> It's faith-based as much as 'walking down the street assuming that the next
> person won't stab you' is faith-based. There's no guarantee, but 99% of the time
> your "faith" is well placed.

You can define an object with private only access to its data members, and do 
logical const that way without needing faith.