On Thursday, December 02, 2010 01:18:31 Don wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: > > spir wrote: > >> What would be the consequences if D had no const, only immutable > >> (that, IIUC, removes the latter non-guarantee)? > > > > You'd have to write most every function twice, once to take immutable > > args and again for mutable ones. > > Doesn't 'inout' do almost the same thing? > The only difference I can see between const and inout, is that inout > tells which parameters could be aliased with the return value.
Except that doesn't inout actually produce multiple versions of the function, whereas with const, you only get the one? - Jonathan M Davis
