From: emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Function call or variable?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 00:34:42 GMT
Date: 1993-03-08T00:34:42+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Mar7193442@dr_no.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alex@cs.umd.edu's message of 7 Mar 93 20:27:06 GMT
You can always assign _to_ the variable. More importantly, you cannot
tell the difference between a function and a *constant*. After all,
the semantics of enumeration literals (for instance) is that they are
parameterless functions that return a value of the enumeration type.
dave
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1993-03-05 23:31 Function call or variable? Thomas Huynh
1993-03-07 20:27 ` Alex Blakemore
1993-03-08 0:34 ` David Emery [this message]
1993-03-13 0:39 ` Adam Beneschan
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1993-03-17 23:58 Robert I. Eachus
1993-03-23 16:02 ` John English
1993-03-24 2:10 ` Robert I. Eachus
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