Who wore it better?
Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 15 13:45:30 PDT 2016
On 4/15/16 4:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 04:16 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> If you find such advertisement useless, you of course do not need inout
>> or const.
>
> Let's not exaggerate by putting them together. -- Andrei
This is not an exaggeration. inout and const have pretty much the same
benefits and drawbacks, with only a couple of major differences. The
main feature of const/inout is advertisement of non-mutation. Otherwise,
we could do with just mutable and immutable + templates.
-Steve
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