On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 22:01:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
And if we're going to really try and get the const issues
sorted out, Walter really should look at Michel Fortin's
changes which replace Rebindable.
And we definitely need to sort out what we want to be doing
with const-
correctness and object. Kenji did some pull requests related to
that, but there were some issues, and I'm not quite sure where
that all stands at the moment. It _is_ a major element in
fixing const though.
- Jonathan M Davis
I concur, these two are major const issues.
Fixing Rebindable seems instrumental in fixing Variant if I
understand the situation correctly. Fixing Variant is
instrumental to fixing std.concurrency. A lot of issues are
solved by going down this path.
As for Object - this week on IRC I had to explain to someone
relatively new to D that the error he encountered was due to
Object not being const-correct yet. Which surely sounds like a
trivial problem to fix, but at least I could link to the
discussion in the pull request to clarify that it isn't entirely
straight-forward. This is definitely another source of
frustration when working with const.
