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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Tim Rühsen" <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>, "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 19:11:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eed8979a-80a5-14ad-6f71-28ff938f69c3@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <287084bb-467d-fe4a-2999-dbb287a0c778@gmx.de>

On 12/29/19 11:03 AM, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> 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 ?

Sorry, I don't recall the details. But the basic problem I had was that the
const/mutable/in trichotomy is kinda complicated. Part of the issue is that in D
one cannot have a const pointer to a mutable int (the D folks think of this
limitation as a feature).


  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-30  3:11 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
2019-12-30  3:11           ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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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