== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer ([email protected])'s article > 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
No problem, I won't. :) But if you remember the reason, please post it since I'm curious!
