Provide @immutable attribute for first-class citizens and namespaces?
Daniel Fitzpatrick
doubleagent03 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 23:56:06 PDT 2012
A few languages out there provide immutability by default. I'm
on board with D not providing it by default, but would it be
useful or worth the effort to add an @immutable attribute to
first class citizens and namespaces eg
// All members & fn returns immutable by default in each case
@immutable module my.ns;
@immutable class foo { .. }
@immutable struct bar { .. }
Additionally,
module blah;
@const import std.algorithm; // All return refs/vals & public
members from std.algorithm treated as immutable within blah
I hesitated to post this since I haven't done much with D, so I
hope I'm not insulting anyone (I have great respect for you all -
you were very helpful when I was trying to learn the language).
No idea how hard this is. Thoughts?
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