On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 08:54:48 UTC, Namespace wrote:
I thought that const = "cannot change directly" and immutable stands for "cannot change all the time". If not, why exist both storage classes beside?
const = you (as in, your view of the data as you're working with it) can't change immutable = no one can change it ... as in, there exists no view of the data that can mutate it.
It's a subtle distinction. In fact, you can be handed a "const" and it's actually immutable underneath. And since immutable data can actually be stored in read only memory...
