I upgraded to 2.0.30 today and noticed the new immutable keyword on the migration to shared page. I knew of the keyword before but older versions of DMD didn't seem to recognize it, so I assumed it meant invariant.

But now I'd like to know what are the specific differences between the two, as I couldn't find any detailed page on the subject.

Jeremie

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep@gmail.com> wrote:
> I upgraded to 2.0.30 today and noticed the new immutable keyword on the migration to shared page. I knew of the keyword before but older versions of DMD didn't seem to recognize it, so I assumed it meant invariant.
>
> But now I'd like to know what are the specific differences between the two, as I couldn't find any detailed page on the subject.

There are no pages on it.  It's currently an alias for invariant.  The idea is that invariant will eventually lose its meaning as a type constructor and just go back to a contract, with immutable taking its place.

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
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> But now I'd like to know what are the specific differences between
> the two, as I couldn't find any detailed page on the subject.

Known issue.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2572

Stewart.