On Saturday, June 1, 2019 8:23:58 PM MDT David Zhang via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Saturday, 1 June 2019 at 16:30:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > If any member variable of a struct is const, then you can't > > modify that member ever, and assignment isn't possible unless > > you override opAssign so that it overwrites only the mutable > > members. It's very rare that it makes sense to make any member > > variables of a struct const or immutable, because then you > > basically can't use assignment anymore. > > > > You could make all of the member variables private and provide > > no functions that set any of them, then the only way to change > > any of their values would be to construct a new value of that > > type and assign it to the variable. > > > > - Jonathan M Davis > > Ideally, I'd like for member functions to be checked against > modifying s also, not just externally.
If the member functions are const or inout, then they won't be able to modify any members. - Jonathan M Davis
