On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 15:48:02 UTC, anonymous wrote:
"immutable" is not a homonym here. It means the same thing
("cannot ever change"). And it's not redundant either, as the
two instances apply to different targets. It's clear what the
first "immutable" ties to: It qualifies the
On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 23:41:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
You're misunderstanding D's type system. Immutable is not a
"better const", as though const is somehow defective. Perhaps
the following diagram may help to clear things up:
const
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On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 12:12:03 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Immutability provides stronger guarantee that allows more
optimizations, e.g. reading the same immutable value is known
to result in the same value so such repeated reading can be
optimized out, in C such optimization is illegal,
I have to disclaim that I am not a very good programmer, and I am
doing this on a hobby level.
I'm reading through the spec because D seems to be a very
interesting language that affords lower level control than say C#
without the syntactical mess of C++. A few things confuse me a
lot.
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