D affects others

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu May 29 22:09:19 PDT 2014


On 5/28/14, 10:05 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 16:31 +0000, Wanderer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> D's const feature is nice and clear. But what made me "fall in
>> love" with D, is 'immutable' modifier. No inner mutable pieces
>> possible, no need to copy defensively (or copy at all), no risk
>> of data corruption, no matter how complex your data is. Very
>> clever idea.
>
> We definitely like immutable :-)

Well it's quite a change of tenor compared to the early reaction. 
Immutable has improved a frakton since, mainly thanks to Kenji's amazing 
work. -- Andrei


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