Remaining const niggles #1 - Custom POD types

[Neil Vice]

I could not possibly agree with you more Janice.

Being new to D2 and having missed all the const discussions I've generally 
been disappointed with the const system. Having said that my major gripes 
are the constant need for explicit casts (as you have covered) as well as 
lack of support in operator overloading in particular (e.g. opApply), which 
I hear is remoured to be being addressed currently.