Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_typecons.html#Rebindable
Andrei
Thanks for the info. It would be nice if variable references to constant data
were built into the language, but as long as Rebindable works, at least it's
possible to have them.
However, it looks like I'm going to have to install dmd differently if I want
to be able to use Rebindable. I'm using gentoo's official ebuild and it's on
version 2.008. I had thought that that was the most recent version, but
apparently not - and it looks like Rebindable has been added since then. Oh
well, I'll get a newer version on my system one way or another. I'd prefer to
be on the most recent version of dmd anyway, so this has pointed out to me that
I'm quite a bit behind.
In any case, thanks for the info. It'll be quite useful. And from the look of
the page that you linked to, you're one of the folks that implemented it, so
thanks for that too.
- Jonathan M Davis
Many wars were fought at one point about exactly this, and, indeed D
2.000-2.007 had it built into the language. Then Walter decided it would
be too confusing for there to be both a head-const ("this thing is
const") and a tail-const ("whatever this refers to is recursively
const"). Thus, we ended up with the system we have today.
