On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 00:50:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, March 19, 2018 00:14:11 Drone1h via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> I am not sure whether I can make it work with "inout" instead of "const". Perhaps I am missing something.
> ...
>> May I ask that you confirm that this is what you suggested ? Thank you.
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> Marking a empty or front with inout has most of the problems that const has. The difference is that [...]

Thank you again for your kind replies. I will carefully read during the following days.

On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 00:50:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

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> http://jmdavisprog.com/articles/why-const-sucks.html

I have just read the reply and the article.

I cannot believe you have written this article in response to this thread (perhaps I am mis-interpreting the date of the article). But even if not so, thank you for clarifications and for describing root causes.

I will have to read it again, and then read the other replies to my question, because I am just beginning to understand what "head-const" and "tail-const" mean and to get an idea of the problems.

By this reply, I just wish to let you all know that your answers are really appreciated and that I believe they are very helpful for many programmers, even if they need time to understand them. Thank you Jonathan. Thank you all.

On Monday, April 09, 2018 23:58:02 Drone1h via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 00:50:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > [...]
> > http://jmdavisprog.com/articles/why-const-sucks.html
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> I have just read the reply and the article.
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> I cannot believe you have written this article in response to this thread (perhaps I am mis-interpreting the date of the article). But even if not so, thank you for clarifications and for describing root causes.

I did not write the article in response to any thread. I'd been meaning to write it for a while. It's just that it's relevant to this thread, and pointing to the article rather than trying to explain everything that's in there again saves me time.

- Jonathan M Davis