On 02/16/2016 09:51 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/16/2016 11:29 AM, Marc Schütz wrote:
For example, it's always possible to use a global mutable associative
array to
store additional data connected with an immutable or const object
(ignoring
purity issues for the moment). That's safe because from the outside,
there's no
observable change to the state of the object itself, and the global
AA's type
(shared/thread-local) prevents race conditions.
The trouble with that is you're relying on the programmer to ensure
correctness. It'll revert D to C++ "trust the programmer" semantics.
That doesn't seem the case to me. -- Andrei
