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

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 18 August 2012 at 20:22:59 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 August 2012 at 11:26:01 UTC, Peter Alexander 
> wrote:
>> In D, const without immutable is meaningless.
>
> lol, that was the whole point of this question... the whole 
> point of Jon's example was to show it's not meaningless even 
> without immutable. :)

Jon is right. If you can guarantee that there are no other 
references then const can provide some guarantees, but in general 
you don't know if there are other references.