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[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/15/2015 03:11 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 November 2015 at 19:51:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Just to clarify - is that referring to the part "We need to change
>> that if we want things like composable containers that work with
>> const." or to the "I think it's a good thing to want" part? -- Andrei
>
> Second part. I don't see a case for const containers at all. Fully
> immutable functional style ones - sure, I have actually experimented
> implementing cache this way in
> https://github.com/Dicebot/mood/blob/master/source/mood/storage/generic_cache.d
> (thing that powers blog.dicebot.lv). But what would you use const
> containers for?

Passing arguments to functions that aren't supposed to change the 
containers. -- Andrei