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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?