Generic programming ramifications of const by default

[Bent Rasmussen]

I had the same thought.

Is const-by-default everywhere feasible?

It would certainly be consistent.

> How bad would it be to make const by default apply to all references 
> including locals?
> If inout, ref, out and friends were considered to be part of the type then 
> this would make thing the same everywhere.
> I'd be willing to consider that even if it means that some type tuples end 
> up having types in them that can only be used as parameter types.
>
> alias T!(in int, out char[], ref float) args;
> void thing(args){...}
>
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