const

[Bruno Medeiros]

Janice Caron wrote:
> 
> Perhaps, but I don't think you've understood that it is /impossible/
> to declare a const variable that isn't, in fact, invariant. Consider:
> 
>     const int x = 5;
> 
> x may be typed const(int), but it is, in fact, really, really,
> invariant. Because not only can you not change it, but no one else can
> either. 

It's impossible? How about:
   const int x = someFuncThatReturnsConst();
?
Your statement is only true if the said variable is static AND has an 
initializer.
(also, to be more accurate, the type in the example should be changed to 
something other than a basic type like int)

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