From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Working with constansts
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:33:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wl4zzml.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gu6utc$2cn$6@news.motzarella.org
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>
>> Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I would like to work with constants in my elisp code. I thought that I
>>> could do this with defconst, but that doen not work.
>>> After:
>>> (defconst dummy "testing")
>>> The variable dummy has the value "testing".
>>> But after:
>>> (setq dummy "changed")
>>> The variable dummy has the value "changed".
>>> What am I doing wrong.
>>
>> You're still thinking that constants don't change or that variables do.
>>
>> If you don't want to change the value of a constant, then don't change
>> it.
>
> Why is it called a constant if its not enforced?
For example we call PI a constant. But PI is the ration between a
circle circumference and its diameter, and this ratio depends on the
curvature of the universe, so PI is not really a constant: in our
universe it depends on the altitude, or the distance to the sun, (on
the gravity in general).
So if you want to avoid bugs in your emacs program when you travel,
you must be able to nudge the values of the constants.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-10 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-10 15:25 Working with constansts Decebal
2009-05-10 16:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-10 16:20 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-10 16:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-05-12 10:34 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2009-05-10 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-10 17:28 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-11 7:39 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.6953.1241976532.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-10 18:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-11 1:36 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-11 6:29 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-12 10:06 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.7056.1242122790.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-12 11:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-18 10:55 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <7ceiuuczad.fsf@pbourguignon.informatimago.com>
[not found] ` <mailman.7379.1242644154.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-18 12:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-18 19:19 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2009-05-10 18:59 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-11 1:38 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-12 9:44 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.7052.1242121473.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-12 11:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-13 4:59 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-13 13:41 ` Ralf Wachinger
2009-05-13 21:23 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-11 9:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.6988.1242036217.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-12 1:31 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-11 8:27 ` Decebal
2009-05-12 9:46 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2009-05-10 16:31 ` Drew Adams
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