"Justin Johansson" <n...@spam.com> wrote in message news:i424ac$27n...@digitalmars.com... > Graham St Jack wrote: >> Is there any plan to introduce some way of having a mutable reference to >> an immutable class object on the heap? Do others see this as a problem at >> all? > > For embedded microsystems (i.e. with ROM/RAM) this is a problem. It > is a common use case to have a mutable reference (in RAM) to some > objects that reside in ROM. Obviously anything in ROM is guaranteed > by hardware to be immutable. So, yes, this is a problem in a > wider sense.
Would there every really be anything in ROM though that would be appropriate as a class though, as opposed to, say, a struct? I've never heard of an object with a vtable being stored in ROM.