On 9/23/2011 2:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, September 23, 2011 14:37 Mehrdad wrote:
On 9/23/2011 11:47 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
...You'd have to duplicate functions all over the place... - Jonathan
M Davis
Can't you avoid that trivially with templates?
Then all of your functions have to be templated.
Right... but we're already doing that with Phobos anyway...
Templated functions can't be
virtual. And even if they _could_ be, that still requires that programmers
template or duplicate functions all over the place. It not only increases the
amount of bloat in the binary, but it creates more work for the programmer.
... didn't I mention the same thing before, regarding too many templates
in Phobos? I thought I always said functions shouldn't be templated, but
everyone said it's OK because (1) that's how it is in C++, (2) it's
faster, (3) etc., etc... I'm really confused by your [seemingly]
contradictory reasoning. :\
Honestly, I don't understand what the problem with transitive const is.
What are you trying to do that the transitiveness of const causes issues? I
just don't see the problem.
- Jonathan M Davis
Wait, what?
Haven't we already had enough complaints on the newsgroup about the
problems with const? Are they all bogus or something?
