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: Working with constansts Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:19:52 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87d4ahylp3.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241973691 2079 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2009 16:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 16:41:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 18:41:21 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 1M3C5Y-0005nP-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 18:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3C5V-0003CR-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 12:41:17 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp1-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help 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) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzcyOGZjNTk3MzdjZTM2MzAzOTYzOWU1YjlhZmI1ZmJkMzEzNzA0Yw== Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2009 18:19:53 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1241972393 news-3.free.fr 14875 88.182.134.169:63001 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169055 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:64319 Archived-At: Decebal 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. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__