What guarantees does D 'const' provide, compared to C++?

[Mehrdad]

On Friday, 17 August 2012 at 20:46:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/16/2012 6:43 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
>> On Friday, 17 August 2012 at 01:25:18 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
>>> Yeah. Again, you can't modify __the const view__.
>>
>> Isn't that kinda useless, if it tells you nothing about the 
>> object itself?
>
> It means you can write code that can process both mutable and 
> immutable objects.

I meant from a C++/D comparison standpoint...