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

Dave Jones dave at jones.com
Wed Aug 29 19:02:42 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 18:02:16 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 29.08.2018 19:15, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 06:58:16PM +0200, Timon Gehr via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 28.08.2018 19:02, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 08:18:57AM +0000, Eugene Wissner via 
>>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Currently, immutable implicitly converts to const. If const is 
>> allowed
>> to be overridden, then you could violate immutable, which is 
>> UB.
>> ...
>
> __mutable fields are __mutable also in the immutable instance. 
> You might get into trouble with shared if you are not careful 
> because of the unfortunate "implicit shared" semantics of 
> immutable, but it is up to the programmer to get this right.

So you cant cast away const but you can specify a field stays 
mutable even if the aggregate is const or immutable?



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