From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: defvar vs defconst Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:49:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871u6cjuce.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375480195 1243 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 21:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 21:49:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 23:49:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V5NES-0008BL-0W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:49:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5NER-0003qS-Hx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5NE9-0003og-OL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5NE0-0000EH-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5NE0-0000AH-Fi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V5NDu-0006sA-Re for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:49:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 184.175.13.230 ([184.175.13.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:49:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 184.175.13.230 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:49:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 7 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.175.13.230 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:63R0pnidYNOdYCaACamqaxdJspg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92682 Archived-At: > set to a new value by your own program - would you call that a VAR or a > CONST? defconst should be used for things which don't change, so I'd call it a VAR. Stefan