const objects (was Re: Death to tuples!)

[Steve Holden]

Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
[...]
> 
> It seems to me that implementing that feature would be fairly easy.
> All that would be needed is a flag with each variable.
> 
It seems to me like it should be quite easy to add a sixth forward gear 
to my car, but I'm quite sure an auto engineer would quickly be able to 
point out several reasons why it wasn't, as well as questioning my 
"need" for a sixth gear in the first place.

Perhaps you could explain why the absence of const objects is a problem?

regards
  Steve
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