const?? When and why? This is ugly!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

grauzone wrote:
>>> Sometimes, you have to leave the more spiffy features to languages 
>>> like Erlang or Haskell which are suited better for this. For example, 
>>> Erlang doesn't share any state by default, and in Haskell, everything 
>>> is immutable. But they use very special mechanisms to make up for the 
>>> problems caused by this, and that's why you can't just pick the 
>>> cherries: it won't fit, it will feel unnatural, and everything will 
>>> be a mess. It's a good idea to copy good features from other 
>>> languages, but never forget where you come from.
>>
>> We plan to add the necessary mechanisms.
> 
> What mechanisms will these be? I'm sure others are curious too.

Still under discussion. We're considering for example message-passing 
queues a la Erlang.

Andrei