On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:40:47AM +0000, Sebastian Unger via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 04:38:25 UTC, Meta wrote: > >On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 01:31:33 UTC, Sebastian Unger wrote: > >There's no head const in D, but you can emulate it. This is a *very* basic > >example that you can expand upon. > > > >http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/55cb22153fcc > > Thanks for that link. Yes, that is close. I'd even feel reasonaly well > about it if it was in phobos so everybody can use the mechanism > consistently.
Pull requests are always welcome. ;-) > It does not however, quite meet the mark of "with ease". Why not? You can just put it in its module and import it whenever you need it. > But it is possibly an acceptable hack around a shortcoming in the > language. > Comming from C++, it's not as though I'm not used to those. > Just a shame to have to resort to it when D is so pretty close to > getting rid of dirty hacks more or less completely. [...] I don't see it as a hack, much less a dirty one. The language was designed precisely to allow implementing this kind of user-defined extensions easily. In fact, there has been a recent trend to move things *out* of the core language where a library implementation suffices. T -- Computers are like a jungle: they have monitor lizards, rams, mice, c-moss, binary trees... and bugs.
