Variable declarations with "constant"?

Variable declarations with "constant"?

[Maciej Sobczak]

Hi,

<http://www.adaic.org/standards/95aarm/html/AA-3-3-1.html>

30 Examples of variable declarations:
31
[...]

Hello       : constant String := "Hi, world.";

In what way is Hello a variable?


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Re: Variable declarations with "constant"?

[Jean-Pierre Rosen]

Maciej Sobczak a �crit :
> Hi,
> 
> <http://www.adaic.org/standards/95aarm/html/AA-3-3-1.html>
> 
> 30 Examples of variable declarations:
> 31
> [...]
> 
> Hello       : constant String := "Hi, world.";
> 
> In what way is Hello a variable?
> 
> 
This is fixed in the Ada2005 reference manual

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Re: Variable declarations with "constant"?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> <http://www.adaic.org/standards/95aarm/html/AA-3-3-1.html>
>
> 30 Examples of variable declarations:
> 31
> [...]
>
> Hello       : constant String := "Hi, world.";
>
> In what way is Hello a variable?

In the sense of misprints, I suppose.

Jacob
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Re: Variable declarations with "constant"?

[Brian May]

>>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com> writes:

    Maciej> Hello : constant String := "Hi, world.";

    Maciej> In what way is Hello a variable?

Define "variable".

Hello would be a variable as per XSLT's definition of the word, which
is justified using the mathematical meaning.

It gets confusing when one word has multiple means....
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>