From: "Tim Rühsen" <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, Darshit Shah <darnir@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: immutable string type
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 20:03:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <287084bb-467d-fe4a-2999-dbb287a0c778@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b85826d8-8986-25fd-bea1-c717e8bf3820@cs.ucla.edu>
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On 29.12.19 19:49, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/29/19 4:07 AM, Tim Rühsen wrote:
>> Introducing a stronger 'const' could be helpful in some situations
>
> D has 'immutable' for that. It doesn't work as well as one might think.
It all depends on the implementation / definition of 'immutable' and how
it is used. Not sure what the actual problems are within D, though.
A quick web search didn't give me any complaints about immutable in D.
Do you have some examples or can you elaborate a bit ?
Regards, Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-29 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-28 11:17 immutable string type Bruno Haible
2019-12-28 13:35 ` Tim Rühsen
2019-12-29 9:45 ` Bruno Haible
2019-12-29 12:07 ` Tim Rühsen
2019-12-29 18:49 ` Paul Eggert
2019-12-29 19:03 ` Tim Rühsen [this message]
2019-12-30 3:11 ` Paul Eggert
2021-01-18 8:17 ` Bruno Haible
2019-12-28 16:54 ` Ben Pfaff
2019-12-29 9:29 ` Bruno Haible
2019-12-28 18:15 ` Paul Eggert
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