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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Why constant components are not permitted ?
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> In Ada, you hide the components (private record), define a constructor
> function providing the values for the constant items and provide only
> read operations for them.

Then you are safe against inadvertant component changes by the client,
but inside, where you have full visibility, you can inadvertantly
change components which should be constants.