const main args?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, August 12, 2011 15:51 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> That's pretty stupid, of course you want to modify the arguments.
> 
> Classic example:
> 
> void main(string[] args)
> {
> args.popFront; // get rid of name
> 
> foreach (arg; args)
> {
> }
> }

getopt alters the arguments too. I'm not sure that it should be disallowed to 
use

void main(in string[] args)

but I'd argue that doing that is generally incredibly counter-productive. Of 
course, I'm against the use of in with arrays in general. const(T)[] maybe, 
but as soon as you use in, you can't use any range functions. A totally const 
or immutable array is generally useless IMHO.

- Jonathan M Davis