Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

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On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 01:11:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/27/2018 10:08 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Const in D makes sense as-is.  Though, granted, its 
>> infectiousness means
>> its scope is actually very narrow, and as a result, we 
>> ironically can't
>> use it in very many places, and so its touted benefits only 
>> rarely
>> apply. :-(  Which also means that it's taking up a lot of 
>> language
>> design real estate with not many benefits to show for it.
>
> D const is of great utility if you're interested in functional 
> programming. Using it has forced me to rethink how I separate 
> tasks into functions, and the result is for the better.
>
> I agree that D const has little utility if you try to program 
> in C++ style.

It doesn't play well with templates or any of the like either, so 
even if you try to do template programming it is just better to 
not use it.

I'm curious as to what an example of this D const for functional 
programming would look like.