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Subject: Re: Variable declarations with "constant"?
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From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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>>>>> "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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