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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 15:23:59 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2012 15:07:30 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/14/12, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Really, printf is the *only* reason to have this backwards  
>>> compatibility
>>> "feature", and I strongly wish we could get rid of it.
>>
>> printf is also unique in that it works when called in class
>> destructors, which is sometimes needed for debugging (unlike writef
>> which wants to allocate memory and then throws).
>
> That's an excellent point.  But what a really mean is, I wish we could  
> get rid of the requirement for interoperability between printf and  
> writef.
>
> Of course, we couldn't get rid of printf, it's part of the C runtime!

Oh, and also, we should fix that problem (that writef allocates).
However, I think we need DIP9 in order to do that.
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP9

-Steve