Re: Long Constant Names

["Joe Lee" <LeeJD@xxxxxx>]

The important thing I think would be to prevent the value of the Const
variables from being changed. I was under the impression that, while you
are warned in the manual not to change Const parameters within a
procedure, there was nothing that prevented you from doing this. After
rereading the manual however, I am no longer certain about that. It
would be nice if the compiler prevented you from changing Const
parameters, if it doesn't already. 

As far as the optimization goes, I doubt it really matters to many of
the programmers how the compiler implements the functionality, as long
as it works. :) 

Joe Lee

>>> bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx 12/30/2004 13:06:53 >>>
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.