Issues with immutable/inout

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On Friday, 15 May 2020 at 14:38:54 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Friday, 15 May 2020 at 11:08:36 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 15.05.20 12:13, burt wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Since D's const, immutable and inout are transitive, it is 
>>> more difficult to write const-correct code.
>>
>> There's no such thing. This is a C++-ism.
>
> In D I just take it to mean "usable with const or immutable 
> instances". It's a shame (to me at least!) that the default is 
> a mutable `this`.

Yes, a preview flag to change the defaults would be very much 
appreciated!

Though I guess a pragma or similar to change the shameful 
defaults on a per package-basis would even be better ;-)