Getting the const-correctness of Object sorted once and for all

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 14.05.2012 23:26, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 15:23:59 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 15:07:30 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
>> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/14/12, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Really, printf is the *only* reason to have this backwards
>>>> compatibility
>>>> "feature", and I strongly wish we could get rid of it.
>>>
>>> printf is also unique in that it works when called in class
>>> destructors, which is sometimes needed for debugging (unlike writef
>>> which wants to allocate memory and then throws).
>>
>> That's an excellent point. But what a really mean is, I wish we could
>> get rid of the requirement for interoperability between printf and
>> writef.
>>
>> Of course, we couldn't get rid of printf, it's part of the C runtime!
>
> Oh, and also, we should fix that problem (that writef allocates).
> However, I think we need DIP9 in order to do that.
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP9
>

DIP9 for the win!
I tried to revive at least *some* interest in it for a long time.


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky