[OT] Programming language WATs

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, January 20, 2012 22:14:43 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.640.1327115503.16222.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> 
> > On Saturday, January 21, 2012 03:44:53 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> >> Probably Windows-only:
> >> 
> >> void main()
> >> {
> >> 
> >>     string a = "foo";
> >>     "foo" = "bar";
> >>     writeln(a);  // "foo"
> >>     assert(a == "foo");  // failure
> >> 
> >> }
> > 
> > Yeah. I don't understand why string literals aren't treated as fully
> > immutable
> > in Windows.
> 
> Or as rvalues.

Yeah. String literals should definitely be immutable rvalues, and they should 
be that way _regardless_ of the OS or architecture.

- Jonathan M Davis