What Principles Drove The D Const Design?

1.	What Principles Drove The D Const Design?
Answer» It will be mathematically sound. That MEANS there are no legal escapes from it. Any TYPE can be wrapped in a struct and the RESULTING struct can still exhibit the same const BEHAVIOR - in other words, no magic behavior for certain TYPES. Const behavior will be transitive. Const behavior for type T will be equivalent for all types T.

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It will be mathematically sound. That MEANS there are no legal escapes from it.
Any TYPE can be wrapped in a struct and the RESULTING struct can still exhibit the same const BEHAVIOR - in other words, no magic behavior for certain TYPES.
Const behavior will be transitive.
Const behavior for type T will be equivalent for all types T.

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