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From: emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Function call or variable?
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 00:34:42 GMT
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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