From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Working with constansts Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:31:58 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87d4ahylp3.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242092455 4309 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2009 01:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 01:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 03:40:48 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 1M3gz8-000437-SB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2009 03:40:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3gz8-00046A-4E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 21:40:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder.motzarella.org!eternal-september.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+tVdksImt1GPXuwuyDPAa211CplQ2jPWz28iKqE9zeOeuXjn7S+I07nY8Ay4OjIyI/r3V1sJi1RoRToLxUVzAp2B1PZjfn3upXb9YTub4XDeDx/IKPWNhl/CJdH2NAyTyKtdRGt+hwhg== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 01:31:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+vi2yW5Dr5uCxVWYfJ5AW3r+xCcihf49s= Cancel-Lock: sha1:QxUaZIvHi5AXIAnV/L6NPEzmLuY= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169093 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:64355 Archived-At: In article , Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () Richard Riley > () Sun, 10 May 2009 18:20:54 +0200 > > Why is it called a constant if its not enforced? > > Who calls it constant? Does Emacs call it constant? >From C-h f defconst: "Define symbol as a constant variable." Of course, "constant variable" is a notorious oxymoron. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***