Const sucks

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> As Regan asked before, and how would that work for classes? This is a 
>> most fundamental issue that has not been mentioned. Without a way to 
>> declare tail const/invariant, this design, no matter how simpler or 
>> more understandable, is fundamentally *broken*.
> 
> What, exactly, is the use case that needs a solution?

Here's another use case, which is significantly different than the other 
(there should be lots more to be found). Say you have a Person class, 
which has a name, and for whatever reasons you want the name be a String 
class instead of const(char)[]. Then you have:

   class Person {
     const(String) name;
     ...

but now how do you change the name of the Person?...



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