Is there any real reason to use "const"?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/24/2022 11:09 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Sure, but const isn't necessary for that. Const is a compiler construct to 
> prevent you from doing stupid things. But a programming language can run 
> perfectly fine with ROM without having a const concept.
> 
> D1 put string literals in ROM without const.

Yeah, but it's undefined behavior if you write to them.