Walter Bright wrote:
grauzone wrote:
I didn't mean going back to programming with locks. Instead you could
use the new ideas without extending the type system. As far as I
understand, the language extensions are only needed for verification
(so far).
Without verification, it's programming by hopeful convention. If you
want a reliable system, you need more than hope <g>.
Well .. if you think about OOP and private/public ..
Dynamic languages like python and smalltalk don't enforce
private/public, and that never was a problem. And, smalltalk is *the* OO
language (AFAIK)
(this is not really an argument against const per se, it's just an
argument against an argument for const)
