On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:36:21 -0400, Mehrdad <[email protected]> wrote:
An idea came to my mind for fixing the const/rebindable issue, and I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not but I thought I'd mention it. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before, but a quick search didn't make it seem like it has been.
It has been brought up, a long time ago, by me on the phobos mailing list (the idea to just assume const(Object) is rebindable, not the final thing). I think it was on the ML that Andrei maintained, so it's archive is gone.
I had the exact same thoughts as you, and Walter found a perfectly iron-clad reason why it doesn't work. I can't say I remember the exact reason (maybe he does off the top of his head), but it definitely killed the idea quite well. So it doesn't work unfortunately :( I know the lack of reference/reason is unsatisfying, but I hope you can trust me that to pursue this is not going to go anywhere, and I don't want to re-argue it again...
-Steve
