Reverted const correctness on object.d

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 14.10.2013 01:19, schrieb Jonathan M Davis:
> On Sunday, October 13, 2013 14:48:33 Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> Why have all the const correctness fixes to object.d been reverted? I
>> couldn't find anything inside the bug ticket.
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1824
>
> What const correctness fixes? If you're talking about the failed fix at the end
> of that bug. I don't know. I'd have to dig through what it did. But the fix
> that was agreed upon in the last major discussion on Object's const-
> correctness was to remove opEquals, opCmp, toHash, and toString from Object so
> that derived classes could put whatever attributes they want on them. They're
> completely unnecessary on Object, since we can templatize all the druntime
> stuff that uses them, and having them on Object is causing problems. But that
> hasn't gotten very far yet, at least in part, because changing the AA stuff
> that would have to be changed is quite messy, and probably in greater part,
> because AFAIK not much of anyone has been working on it.
>
> There are four enhancement requests open for this (one for each function):
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9769
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9770
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9771
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9772
>
> I have an open pull request for druntime which improves the opEquals
> situation, but it hasn't been merged yet:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/459
>
> This was the most recent discussion on a way to transition those functions off
> of Object:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.214.1369617617.13711.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.280.1369712394.13711.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

Thanks for the explanation. I was just curious because the change made 
sense in the first place. I agree that removing them entierly is the 
better option.

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Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut