Let it be.

Not a flame, but a suggestion:

let $pi be constant;


That any better?

=Austin

--- Dan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> | I've been reading "is" as a declarative imperative, something which
> | declares a property of something you are creating.  Here it's being
> | used to modify the properties of something that already exists, and
> | it reads funny to me.  Many properties that one can set at
> | declaration time are compile time only, yet this usage might
> suggest
> | to many people that they can be changed at run time.  If you see
> | what I mean.
> 
> Clearly we need 'becomes' and 'gets' for mutable properties, in
> addition to 'is' and 'has' for constant ones.
> 
> -- 
> http://www.dfan.org
> 


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