On Saturday, 22 June 2019 at 05:10:14 UTC, Yatheendra wrote:
It feels disingenous to want to call a caching object even "logically" const. There has to be a scaffolding-based but hopefully generic compromise. I haven't yet tested this belief, but I believe "physical" const is of good use wherever it can be applied.

On Friday, 21 June 2019 at 23:39:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The problem with this is that you cannot use const(Wrapper).

In particular, if you have a function that wants to document that it does not mutate its argument, you cannot write:

        auto func(in Wrapper data) { ... }

because const(Wrapper) does not allow lazy initialization.
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"physical" const has to be applicable & good in many/most other use-cases than caching (citation needed). Somehow, wanting to call mutating code on logically const values sounds to be the wrong want.

Lazy initialization sounds like it will be a good DIP :-) Generate (once) on (first) read, just like copy (once) on (first) write. But there are other ways.

Heavy computation called at most once: bite the bullet, eagerly construct an immutable value ahead of time. "physical" const might have just enough optimization opportunity to offset biting the bullet.

Called more than once: same thing.

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