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

[Walter Bright]

On 8/17/2012 2:34 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
> 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...

I don't know what you're driving at.