const/immutable member functions

[bearophile]

foobar:

> This "problem" happens because D belongs to the C-family of languages which puts the return type _before_ the function name.

Of course C++ has everything :-) See the trailing-return-type feature of C++0x:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Alternative_function_syntax
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4523617/omit-return-type-in-c0x

Bye,
bearophile