D and Nim

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"weaselcat"  wrote in message news:nopttywdkgouyxnlrwcf at forum.dlang.org...

> I'm inclined to believe there's some benefit to explicitly using immutable 
> as Walter has written about it more than once, and it's in D's own 
> documentation.
> While I'm sure the compiler can infer immutability, it probably becomes 
> more difficult as the lifetime of the objects become more complicated... 
> but I'm in no position to make a statement about it, maybe Walter or 
> Andrei could chime in.

You're exactly right, the compiler can sometimes tell a variable is never 
modified, but will have serious trouble when it comes to class members, 
indirections, global/tls variables, etc.