• Florian Sonnenberger (19/19) Apr 04 2005 Why can CONSTANT arrays be sorted and modified at runtime?

Florian Sonnenberger <florian sonnenberger-wolnzach.de> writes:

Why can CONSTANT arrays be sorted and modified at runtime?
Is this a bug?

  <code>

int main(char[][] args)
{
     const char[][] ABCD = [ "DDD", "AAA", "CCC", "BBB"];

     ABCD.sort;        // No error!

     ABCD[3]="333";    // No error too!

     ABCD.reverse;     // Also no error!

     foreach(inout char[] String; ABCD)
     writef(String,'\n');

     return 0;
};

  </code>

Maybe only the struct (that contains the pointer to the data and the 
length of the array) is constant, because adding strings (ABCD ~= "EEE") 
is not allowed. But how can I then make the data constant?

( DMD 0.119 )

Florian