Unofficial wish list status.(Jul 2008)

[Brad Roberts]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Walter Bright wrote:

> superdan wrote:
> > i couldn't design an const/invariant system to save my life
> > from the same cannibals who ate bjarne. the space looked like a zero
> > sum shit to me. so when i saw what walter came up with, i was rightly
> > surprised. same goes about some shit in phobos2. it's not just yet
> > another library. it's a fucking cool one because it's better in a new
> > and surprising way.
> 
> I cannot claim credit for it. The const/invariant design was the result of
> literally hundreds of hours of work (and maybe a hundred gallons of coffee) by
> Andrei, Bartosz, Brad, David, Eric and myself, as well as feedback from the
> community on why our earlier efforts got it wrong.
> 
> The transitivity requirement originated with Andrei, if I recall correctly.

Quite possibly it was both of us, but I know I brought it up in 
discussions with you prior to joining the group discussions.  It's my 
primary angst with c++ const.

Later,
Brad