2009/7/31 Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au>: > 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!
We don't actually *declare* that something is constant and then have that declaration ignored. Python doesn't lie to us, although (as in any language) a programmer might. -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
