From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: about defconst. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:26:52 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ocr6h6pf.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248684149 1334 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2009 08:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:42:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 27 10:42:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MVLmn-0002fd-NR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVLmn-00085z-1s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:42:21 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net suaSksi0sLCoZGAA1eYttQI7MfDo1KCYvzwhg1nnuHmdu4srrs Cancel-Lock: sha1:OGY2NGU1YzFhMzZjNjI0Zjg2MmU5MzExYzU4NDA2MGZlOTA3MzNiNQ== sha1:LvtiLK/2AOQJk44BBBwzsqgvTYI= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171235 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66421 Archived-At: waterloo writes: > Incidentally, to be more complete concerning defines:  `defsubst' > defines an inline function.  The syntax is just like that of `defun'. > `defconst' defines a symbol as a constant.  The intent is that neither > programs nor users should ever change a value set by `defconst'.  (You > can change it; the value set is a variable; but please do not.) > -------------------------------- > I can understant the last sentence in parentheses . > What does it mean ? We recently discussed it. Read that thread: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/7b62672cafa790eb/509a8ecadd3be8c6?q=defconst+group:gnu.emacs.help# -- __Pascal Bourguignon__