On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 09:00:08 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
const = you (as in, your view of the data as you're working with it) can't change
Actually, let me be even clearer with this... I mean _you_ cannot change it, but it might be changed by someone else's view, in which case it would appear to change in your view ... but not by any interaction you make with it.
This means concretely that anything you do with the object will have no effect on its bit representation in memory, although the bit representation in memory might be changed by other threads/processes/views.
