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

[Mehrdad]

On Friday, 17 August 2012 at 04:25:42 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Friday, 17 August 2012 at 04:17:33 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>> Okay so basically, the conclusion I'm drawing is that you have 
>> to combine it with pure/immutable in order to get much more 
>> out of it than compared with C++; otherwise, it's not really 
>> different.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> You posted this before seeing the additional clarifications Mr. 
> Davis and I posted, and I understand that, but I just wanted to 
> say that factoring what we both said I think it's clear that it 
> is really different. Not bulletproof (I'd say const + pure 
> would be nearly bulletproof and immutable + pure would truly be 
> bulletproof if you started considering multi-threading), but 
> certainly better than C++.

Yup, I saw the difference after his post as well. :)