Const sucks

[Bruno Medeiros]

Russell Lewis wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>  > (snip)
>> o  static const/invariant means the initializer is evaluated at 
>> compile time. non-static const/invariant means it is evaluated at run 
>> time.
> 
> I'd like to suggest that we use some keyword other than "static."  Yeah, 
> I know that "static" can imply "static analysis" (compile time), but the 
> static modifier on a variable has a well-known meaning from C: it's not 
> exported.  I think that that was a poor design choice in C, but now 
> we're stuck with millions of programmers who expect it.
> 

No one cares (or at least, should care) what that means in C. That's 
ancient history. More important is the other meaning that 'static' in *D 
itself*: the meaning of "non-instance / unique" which is really 
unrelated to "compile-time".

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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