Re: Functions vs constants

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Shark8 wrote:

> On 21-Jul-14 15:28, Victor Porton wrote:
>> This would additionally allow to rename constants as functions.
> 
> You can already do that:
> 
>      package CPU is
>          Type Register is (
>                            -- General registers
>                            EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX,
> 
>                            -- Segment registers
>                            CS, DS, ES, FS, GS, SS,
> 
>                            -- Index and pointers
>                            ESI, EDI, EBP, EIP, ESP,
> 
>                            --Indicator
>                            EFLAGS
>                           );
> 
>          function Default return Register;
>      private
>          function Default Return Register Renames EAX;
>      end CPU;

Enumeration literals are technically not constants, are them?

> Or
>          function Default_User Return String is ("Dave");
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