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  3. December 2004

Re: Long Constant Names

Joe Lee wrote:
> 
> An interesting idea occurred to me while reading this. Would it be
> possible to add constant qualified data structures? These constants
> would be used and defined just like a variable qualified data structure.
> So you would have something like the following.
> 
> DayOfWeek     DS                 Qualified Const
>  Sunday                                 Const(1)
>  Monday                                Const(2)
>  Tuesday                               Const(3)
>  Wednesday                          Const(4)
>  Thursday                              Const(5)
>  Friday                                   Const(6)
>  Saturday                              Const(7)

I like the idea of Const for variables.  I think it would be fairly
straightforward to do given that it's already possible to have constant
variables through prototyped parameters.  Optimizing it not to generate
storage for the constant variables would be more complex, but not
strictly necessary anyway.

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