Getting the const-correctness of Object sorted once and for all

[Stewart Gordon]

On 13/05/2012 17:41, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
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> I agree with everything but toString(). I'm afraid that forcing toString() to be const
> will have harm flexibility severely. Can't we do better, somehow?

How exactly?

If you're talking about memoization, it ought to be possible to make use of 
std.functional.memoize to implement it.

Otherwise, using toString to change the state of an object is bending semantics.  If you 
want a method to generate a string representation of an object in a way that might do 
this, then create your own method to do it.

Stewart.