I want to declare a class all instances of which will be immutable, and all references to which will be inherently immutable (so that I don't need to slip a huge number of "immutable" statements in my code).

This is surely possible, because string acts just that way, but I can't figure out how to do this.

immutable class    Msg  {    this(...) immutable{...} ... }

doesn't work that way, as when I do

Msg m = new Msg (...);

I get:

Error: incompatible types for ((this.m) - (m)): 'immutable(Msg)' and 'cellram.Msg'

and

Error: immutable method cellram.Msg.this is not callable using a mutable object


Does anyone know the correct approach?

On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 17:56:59 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
> Does anyone know the correct approach?

I do:

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immutable class Foo
{
    this() {}
}

void main()
{
    auto foo = new immutable(Foo);
}
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But take care because you can't do much with an immutable class.