[Article] D's Garbage Collector Problem

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/13/2014 09:07 PM, "Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= 
<schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
> Wouldn't `const` be enough? AFAICS, `immutable` is mostly useful for
> shared data.

const prevents modification, but does not guarantee that no modification 
takes place elsewhere. I.e. it enables fewer program transformations.