Congratulations to the D Team!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/11/12 2:01 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 19:49, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/11/12 1:40 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>>> Some classes don't lend themselves to immutability. Let's take something
>>> obvious like a class object representing a dataset in a database. How is
>>> an immutable instance of such a class useful?
>>
>> This is a good point. It seems we're subjecting all classes to certain
>> limitations for the benefit of a subset of those classes.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Did you saw the proposal of feep/tgehr on #d ?
>
> It basically state that you can overload a const method with a non const
> one if :
> - You don't mutate any data that belong to the parent.
> - You are prevented to create any immutable instance of that classe or
> any subclasse.

Haven't seen that, but on first look it seems promising.

Andrei