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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Why constant components are not permitted ?
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:10:16 +0100
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:46:13 +0100, Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Constants with other purposes can be declared outside the type
> definition and thus shared among all objects of the declared type.

The constant value may depend on the enclosing object, undesired or
impossible to re-evaluate each time when needed.

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