Interfacing with C in 2.066.1

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 18:28:50 UTC, fra wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 10:19:19 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 10:03:51 UTC, Jason den Dulk 
>> wrote:
>>> When upgrading my compiler from 2.065 to 2.066.1 I have 
>>> encountered problems with some of my extern(C) code.
>>>
>>> My declarations (in a .di file) are wrapped in an extern(C) 
>>> declaration. The code compiled fine in 2.065. In 2.066.1 it 
>>> first complained about functions returning "const char *" 
>>> ("function without this cannot be const").
>>
>> const char* foo() {}
>>
>> is a function that takes a const 'this' reference and returns 
>> char*
>> You want
>> const(char)* foo() {}
>> or
>> const(char*) foo() {}
>
> Oh look, is THIS AGAIN. :(

Yeah, this is causing a lot of confusion.