Poll: Primary D version

[Pelle]

On 05/23/2010 10:14 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> And I would argue that it's unreasonable to expect the declarations of C
> functions to be declared const-correct based on their usage. To my
> knowledge, all of the C bindings for D to date either don't use const at
> all (because they were created for D1) or use it according to the
> declarations in the C headers. Which means there are numerous C
> functions out there with non-const params that do not modify them.
>

I do them according to the C headers, and the constness is almost always 
correct. Otherwise, it's a bug in the C headers!

> Then there's the issue of compatibility between D1/D2. I've bound
> several C libraries for D that need to support both D1/D2, Phobos/Tango.
> Supporting const was one of the first headaches I encountered when
> porting the original D1 bindings to D2. Finding that toStringz returned
> a const string was a big surprise.

It should probably be inout(char)* toStringz(inout(char)[]), or 
something like that.