Origins of the D Programming Language

[Kagamin]

On Saturday, 1 December 2018 at 08:22:57 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
wrote:
>> I also like the history of immutable btw: remember when it was 
>> called "invariant" and why it changed?
>
> It was renamed just for clarity, when someone got confused 
> about it, the explanation was always something like "it's 
> simple an immutable value, like ROM"

AFAIK, it was renamed for consistency with unittests, otherwise 
invariant blocks required braces: invariant(){ ... } or it would 
be ambiguous with block attribute.