All right, all right! Interim decision regarding qualified Object methods

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, July 12, 2012 20:42:49 David Piepgrass wrote:
> - 'const' is not overly harsh if the user has machanisms to make
> that mean 'logical const'.

That will _never_ happen. That completely destroys a number of the benefits of 
const, and it adds quite a bit of cognitive load in dealing with const, 
because all of a sudden, you have to worry about whether _this_ const means 
actual const or logical const. It would also complicate the compiler's 
handling of const by quite a bit. Not to mention, Walter hates logical const 
in general, so he wouldn't support it. So, no, it's not going to happen.

If we get any kind of logical const, it's going to be separate from const. 
const always has been and always will be physical const in D.

- Jonathan M Davis