Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 18:49:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> If what you wrote is UB (as it is in D), then the compiler can 
> go ahead and assign 5 to y.
>
> In C++, the compiler has to reload x, because it may have 
> changed.
>
> Someone explained this to me recently on the NG.
>
> -Steve

Thanks, so when people say "C++ defines the behavior of modifying 
const" what they really mean is "C++ defines const as 
meaningless."