What guarantees does D 'const' provide, compared to C++?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, August 17, 2012 02:32:01 Mehrdad wrote:
> > C++ makes no such guarantees, because you're free to cast away
> > const and modifiy objects
> 
> Not correct, as far as I understand.
> C++ only lets you cast away _const references_ to _mutable_
> objects.
> If the object happens to have been const _itself_, then that's
> undefined behavior.

Well, then our understandings on the matter conflict, and I don't know for 
certain which of us is correct.

- Jonathan M Davis