Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:47:04 +0100, Tim Rowe wrote:
That and the fact that I couldn't stop laughing for long enough to learn
any more when I read in the Pragmatic Programmer's Guide that "Ruby,
unlike less flexible languages, lets you alter the value of a constant."
Yep, as they say "Bug" = "Undocumented feature"!
That's no different from Python's "constant by convention". We don't even
get a compiler warning!
That's quite different, actually. Python doesn't claim to have
constants! Can't misinterpret what you can't have, can you?
[Holds breath while awaiting counter-example... :]
~Ethan~
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