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

[Timon Gehr]

On 28.08.2018 03:11, 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.

D const/immutable is stronger than immutability in Haskell (which is 
usually _lazy_).