On Friday, 13 February 2026 at 21:43:58 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I definitely do not believe in immutable data structures.
As a general rule, prefer immutable variables over mutable
ones. - https://ddili.org/ders/d.en/const_and_immutable.html
When expectations are laid out explicitly by unit tests and
contracts, functions that are initially correct have a greater
chance of staying correct. I recommend that you take full
advantage of any feature that improves program correctness. -
https://ddili.org/ders/d.en/contracts.html
Have you had a change of heart on the subject?
either make a linked list or a handle of some kind.
It's not clear who you are imperating with "make" or "handle"
but if it's me, then you may delude as much as you can but I
will not "make" nor "handle" whatever you are talking about.
a `handle` is something returned from an opIndex or a `&` that is
a fake reference, to simulate value schematics, or whatever.
A linked list or handle would be capable of being returned as a
ref despite being const or immutable. If brother bill wants to
have something that const-ref opIndex-return, he would have to
pick a data structure that isnt plain-old-data.
And try waking up without hate some days.
Moralizing emotions doesnt work.
