Paul D. Anderson:
It's like the old joke: "Doc, it hurts when I do this." Doctor:
"Don't do that!"
And it's a good advice because:
- The mammalian body is able to heal a surprisingly high number
of problems by itself, given the right conditions and enough
time. In such time avoiding to do "that" (like jumping on a knee
that hurts) is a good advice, and it's often one of the
conditions for the healing.
- Even if the body needs a bit of help from medicine, avoiding
hurting a sore spot is often a good idea. Especially when there
is no good cure available (like in many orthopaedic problems,
that have surgery solutions that often cause more problems than
the original problem).
I need both constant and mutable BigInts.
Me too. In the last years I've put some bug reports on this in
Bugzilla. Don is well aware that bigints are not const-corrected.
It's a matter of working on them and fixing the problem, because
maybe now D has all the tools to perform this fix/improvement.
In the meantime my advice is to not use const bigints.
Bye,
bearophile
