Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2010 05:42:53 Lutger wrote: >> Variant in phobos doesn't work well with being const, toHash and opEquals >> for example are not marked as const methods. I have tried to work around >> it with careful casting, but it is too unsafe and just too complex for >> something that is supposed to make life easier. >> >> Does anybody know if this is a temporary problem with variant itself or >> related to other bugs or limitations? Should I file a bug report for this? >> I could only find this: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3795 > > The fact that Object is not const-correct is a huge problem. > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1824 covers that, but I don't > know when it's going to be fixed. > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3748 which deals with inout > probably has to be fixed first. > > So, I don't know whether there's really an issue with Variant itself, but the > fact that functions like toHash() opEquals() aren't const is a big problem > which is supposed to be addressed at some point but hasn't yet. > > - Jonathan M Davis
Ouch. Thanks for the intel.
