On Thursday, 17 October 2013 at 19:53:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
For value types, there's no real difference between immutable
and const.
Because they're value types, you can't have mutable references
to them. The
differences between const and immutable only really come into
play once you're
dealing with reference types, because then you can end up with
differently
qualified references to the same data.
It is important to make clarify that this is true only for
directly accessible value types. Once any single level of
indirection is in question, `const` stops giving any guarantees.
This is exactly the case for `const(char)[]` vs `immutable(char)`
- `const(char)` itself is a value type but pointer to
`const(char)` can also store pointer to mutable `char`.
