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[Deewiant]

Deewiant wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I've become convinced that the "default everything to const" method seems 
>> ideal, but this seems like something that should really be done before 1.0 
>> if it's going to happen?
>> 
>> Sean
> 
> I agree. Walter posted somewhere in comp.lang.c++.moderated (I think it was 
> there) that he thinks he should have made D like this from the start, but 
> that it's too late now. With that, I disagree. We're not at 1.0 yet: it's not
>  too late to break even every single line of D code out there.

I found the post in question, BTW. Here's the Google Groups link:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/tree/browse_frm/thread/d6695737a74e1853/18dc841928a6eee3?rnum=131&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.c%2B%2B.moderated%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fd6695737a74e1853%2F840b0deea2987ee5%3Flnk%3Dst%26rnum%3D1%26#doc_3ff8dedacef55e17

In summary:

Andrei Alexandrescu says "Why, then, didn't D make const the default? C++ had a
good reason - C compatibility."

Walter responds: "I should have. Too much water under the bridge for that now."

In the same post Walter also acknowledges that "There has been some talk in the
D newsgroups of doing that, but it has the potential to be extremely disruptive."