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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Functions vs constants
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:27:49 +0300
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Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> 
>> One could even imagine a radical solution of having no constants at all,
>> as parameterless expression functions would serve the purpose just as
>> well. (Too radical, I think, as the syntax of an expression function
>> would be too verbose for the use.)
> 
> What would happen if we changed the definition of a constant declaration
> to be syntax sugar for the equivalant parameterless expression function?

I think it is not enough. We need also specify that it is a static value.

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