Re: Long Constant Names

[Tony Carolla <carolla@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think I am confused, and the New Year's Eve libations have not even
started yet ;-)

When you say users wanted to allow CONST for variables, that can be
inz'd but not modified, isn't this the definition of a Constant.  If
you specify a 'C', and use the CONST keyword, voila.  You have
initialized a variable that can't be modified.

By variable, are you referring to using it in a Data Struct?  


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:11:28 -0500, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 
> My memory has already gone on New Year's vacation ...
> 
> Const for variables was on our last enhancement survey (2002).  It got
> about 6% of the votes.  Maybe with an example like yours it would have
> scored higher ...
> 
> #38  $15   Allow keyword CONST for variables.  CONST variables can be
>            initialized, but not modified.  On procedure calls, they can
>            be passed only as CONST or VALUE parameters.
> 
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