On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Kelly</b> <<a href="mailto:sean@f4.ca">sean@f4.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My classic example for the need of "mutable" is a mutex used to<br>synchronize access to class data. The mutex must be modified even for<br>read operations.</blockquote></div><br>Again, if we let D's "private" attribute also imply C++'s "mutable", then that problem goes away.
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