Is D a cult?

[Simen kjaeraas]

Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> retard wrote:
>> On the other hand Scala does provide a shallow form of immutability and  
>> some immutable data structures in the standard library.
>
> My experience with shallow const (in C++) is that it's nearly useless.  
> Most C++ code I've seen seems to rely on an implicit assumption of  
> transitive const, but it isn't in the documentation and of course you  
> don't know if it is upheld or not. This is not conducive to reliable FP.

I still remember my first reading about D const, and thinking
'What? Other const regimes aren't transitive? That's madness!'

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Simen