Perhaps we need to defer const for a while (3.0?)

Carlos Santander csantander619 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 19:42:17 PST 2008


Jarrett Billingsley escribió:
> "Russell Lewis" <webmaster at villagersonline.com> wrote in message 
> news:flgm71$30h3$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> Maybe it's time to stop spinning our wheels here and start making progress
>>  on other things.
> 
> Hear hear.  I've had about a bellyfull of discussions on a feature whose 
> utility I just don't see (Janice, don't reply to me telling me why I need it,
> all you consties have made your point.  repeatedly.).

Same here.

> I'd much rather we spent our time making metaprogramming more powerful.
> 
> 

True. Having found (not long ago) how much can be done with metaprogramming, I 
keep wanting more.

I wonder if we could have something like D 1.5 where some 2.0 features could be 
backported, including macros, whenever they come, but definitely not const.

-- 
Carlos Santander Bernal



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