On Friday, 17 August 2012 at 03:42:23 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Friday, 17 August 2012 at 03:36:28 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
Combine const and pure
Yes, I 100% realize 'pure' and 'immutable' are advantages over
C++.
The question was about 'const' by itself, though, because
otherwise that's not a fair comparison. (The goal is comparing
C++ const to D const, not C++ const to D const + immutable +
purity.)
To clarify... the motivation for this question in the first place
was the fact that I've been consistently told (and have read)
that D const provides more guarantees than C++ const, so I was
trying to figure out how.
If what you're saying is that the extra guarantees only translate
into optimizations when used along with immutable/pure, then
that's a completely valid answer. :) Is that what you're saying?
(i.e. I DO realize that combining them would give you an
optimization, but the question is -- must you combine const with
something else to gain an advantage over C++?)
