Congratulations to the D Team!

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jul 10 15:05:37 PDT 2012


On 7/9/2012 3:27 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> This opEquals is only logically constant, not bitwise constant, hence it must
> not be const; similar to the caching scenario. Just trying to demonstrate that
> the issue is bigger than just caching - it's any logically constant comparison
> function.

I understand, but the downside of not making these functions const is it will 
torpedo the use of functional style programming in D.

A straightforward workaround is to use PIMPL to encapsulate the logical const 
stuff, and then cast the reference to const to use inside the opEquals.


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