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Subject: Re: void variable
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:49:26 -0400
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      We could easily add a bit in the symbol to keep
    track of which vars are "const" to work around this (my own local Emacs
    branch has had that for a while, even making all `defconst'd variables
    read-only).

That would be reasonable, although what we really should be doing now
is moving towards a release.