• Freddy (19/19) Sep 04 2015 I love the way D does transitive const and immutable but i have a
• Adam D. Ruppe (6/7) Sep 04 2015 That's due to the nature of structs - you would be overwriting a

"Freddy" <Hexagonalstar64 gmail.com> writes:

I love the way D does transitive const and immutable but i have a 
problem when i use const a struct field.
---
struct MyStruct
{
     int a;
     const int b;
}

struct Range
{
     MyStruct front;
     void popFront()
     {
         front = MyStruct(2, 3);
     }

     enum empty = false;
}
---
This sample doesn't compile.

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 23:26:39 UTC, Freddy wrote:
 This sample doesn't compile.

That's due to the nature of structs - you would be overwriting a 
const field.

Const fields should probably be avoided since they aren't all 
that useful. You could instead do a const getter property for it 
without a corresponding setter, then make the actual data private.