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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 9240] New: (Regression: 2.058) non-const does not implicitly convert to const

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           Summary: (Regression: 2.058) non-const does not implicitly
                    convert to const
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: regression
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: andrej.mitrovich gmail.com



08:48:00 PST ---
void ok(const(int*)*) { }
void ng(const(int)**) { }

void main()
{
    int** x;
    ok(x);
    ng(x);
}

'ng' call fails to compile since 2.058

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19:32:48 PST ---
Introduced by:

commit d3cd1bf6db3689fb16c8f97572ae8bbf92ec9df7
Author: k-hara <k.hara.pg gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 13 15:03:44 2011 +0900

    Issue 4251 - Hole in the const system: immutable(T)[] implicitly casts to
ref const(T)[]

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yebblies <yebblies gmail.com> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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         Resolution|                            |INVALID



This is not a bug.  See the examples in issue 4251 for how allowing this would
break const.

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07:43:19 PST ---

 This is not a bug.  See the examples in issue 4251 for how allowing this would
 break const.
Exact comment which explains this: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4251#c9 I think this could go to the spec as a small note. It was brought up on IRC by someone converting some C++ code to D, and at first sight it seemed like a the problem perfectly. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
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