Help - can't ADD constness

[charles]

Const is a god awful abomination that no language has gotten right, the 
sooner its gotten rid of the better.  No one I work with has ever had a 
situation where const actually paid off.

Janice Caron wrote:
> PS.
> 
> auto a = cast(const) new A();
> doesn't compile eiither. Error is
> 
> Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (cast(const A)new A) of
> type const A to test.A
> (test is the module name)
> 
> Now that's bizarre. It won't compile because auto gets the type wrong!