• Lutger (7/7) Aug 07 2010 Variant in phobos doesn't work well with being const, toHash and opEqual...
• Jonathan M Davis (9/17) Aug 07 2010 The fact that Object is not const-correct is a huge problem.
• Lutger (2/23) Aug 07 2010 Ouch. Thanks for the intel.

Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:

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

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisprog gmail.com> writes:

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

Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:

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.