IFTI, value types, and top-level const

[monarch_dodra]

On Sunday, 9 June 2013 at 10:49:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> The other big problem which is related is how to deal with 
> tail-const and
> ranges. It's currently very difficult right now (if it's even 
> possible), which
> makes it so that you should pretty much never mix const and 
> ranges. I know
> that this is one of Steven Schveighoffer's pet peeves, and he's 
> working on some
> sort of proposal to fix it, but he hasn't finished it yet.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

My pet peeve is how phobos casts away the constness of ranges all 
over the place, as if it was a trivial and legal operation.