From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP
Subject: Re: single valued variables
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 14:29:30 EST [thread overview]
Date: Wed Apr 8 14:29:30 1987
Message-ID: <3930006@nucsrl.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8704031535.AA26545@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
/ nucsrl:comp.lang.ada / "SVDSD::PETCHER@ti-eg.CSNET" / 6:14 am Apr 3, 1987 /
>[...] A variable that can have only one value is, by definition, not
>a variable, but a constant. In that context, it seems a compiler should
>create a constant, issue a diagnostic for any subsequent code that attempts to
>change the constant, and generate no executeable code for same. [...]
A variable that can have at most one value can also have no value -- it may be
uninitialized; constants may not be.
Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
{ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!gore
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1987-04-03 12:14 single valued variables SVDSD::PETCHER@ti-eg.CSNET
1987-04-06 13:44 ` firth
1987-04-08 19:29 ` gore [this message]
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1987-04-07 5:26 drw
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