On 7/10/2012 3:13 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I don't think they were rushed. There's been a push for making druntime and Phobos const-correct for a while now. I don't think this change is a _mistake_ per se, but it does expose a flaw in the language: const is too limited in scope, and we need something else to fill in for use cases where const isn't good enough.
There's a gigantic problem with logical const. It is completely unenforceable - it is documentation only. All the reasoning and mechanical guarantees that come with const, immutable, and purity fall apart.
