Re: Constants (was Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Various Stuff);

[Olivier D. <dr...@sh...>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:02:07PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Olivier Dragon wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:29:44PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> > I guess a majority of people seems to think that constants aren't
> > such a good idea after all. May the Lord save us all (joking).
> > Fine with me.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure that anyone is saying that constants are a bad thing - it's
> just that the implementation doesn't hit the right note.

That's what I meant by "not such a good idea" :o) You captured the
essence of it. It's not a Bad Thing(tm), just not appropriate in the
current

> You can have constant scalars but I have to say that it is equally nasty:

> (* nasty stuff snipped *)

Gotcha! :o)

-Oli

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