Head Const

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 16.02.2016 11:17, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 10:06:12 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
>> Another bonus to introducing the mutable keyword is the option to make
>> everything immutable by default (in a future version of D) and allow
>> the users to have mutable objects only if they use the mutable keyword.
>
> While some folks do bring that up from time to time, I think that it's
> pretty clear that that would be so restrictive that it would risk
> killing D. As it is, many programmers avoid const altogether, because
> it's too restrictive.

Immutable by default would not be what we have now (transitive immutable).