On 10/16/2013 10:23 AM, Daniel Davidson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 October 2013 at 13:09:34 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote:
>> guidelines):
>>
>> 1. If a variable is never mutated, make it const, not immutable.
>> 2. Make the parameter reference to immutable if that is how you will
>> use it anyway. It is fine to ask a favor from the caller.
> After trying for several days to use immutable with types containing
> some mutable aliasing I have come to the conclusion that maybe rule
> number one should be:
>
> If you have a type that has now or may ever have in the future any
> mutable aliasing (e.g. inclusion of T[] or T1[T1] where Ts are mutable)
> do not ever use the immutable keyword in any context as things just
> break down.
I think this topic should be carried to the main newsgroup already. I am
convinced that this is a language issue. :-/
> Thanks,
> Dan
Ali
