Bug? tupleof and const string = ""

[monarch_dodra]

On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 17:12:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 16:57:19 UTC, John Colvin 
> wrote:
>> Don't you mean const/immutable fields with initialisers don't 
>> become instance fields? Or is this actually as strange as it 
>> sounds?
>
> Yes, it is legacy behavior (== bug) that persisted since D1 
> days and was addressed only recently. Until this 
> deprecation/transition process will end this:
>
> struct X
> {
>     const string value = "literal";
> }
>
> is effectively same as this:
>
> struct X
> {
>     enum value = "literal";
> }

To be anal, it's technically the same as:

struct X
{
      static const string value = "literal";
}

The immutable/const member will be made a static member, which
you can deference, or pass by reference.