Why do we have transitive const, again?

[Mehrdad]

On 9/23/2011 7:21 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 09/23/11 20:52, Mehrdad wrote:
>> I run into this problem and similar ones so often that it's driven me 
>> away from D, as much as I was a fan. If you have a nice solution then 
>> please let me know.
>
> This strikes me as a pretext. If you frame that obscure matter as a 
> showstopper, you'll have no trouble finding another one the moment 
> you're given a solution.
>
> Andrei

o_O... What's so "obscure", exactly? Are you asking for some sort of 
"proof" for the fact that that problem was a showstopper for me or 
something?