Unofficial wish list status.(Jul 2008)
Jarrett Billingsley
kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 21 07:02:26 PDT 2008
"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
news:g6188e$smu$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Don wrote:
>> What if the community concensus remains that const is just too
>> complicated, without enough benefit?
>
> A simpler const system (such as what C++ has) has little benefit, and all
> the other const proposals were much more complex.
I think what he's getting at here is that the community concensus might just
be that const-correctness, at least C-style const-correctness (from which
the D2 system is derived), is not good, not that we want a simpler system.
Why bother, nothing's going to change.
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