Re: Dylan Constants

[Scott_Fahlman@SEF1.SLISP.CS.CMU.EDU]

     From the Dylan reference, there appears to be now way of defining a read
    only constant ala the Common Lisp DEFCONSTANT macro. 

The Dylan people at Apple have indicated that this will be fixed.  I don't
know if they've yet settled on a choice of syntax, but I believe the
current plan is that *all* the "define" forms will produce constants, and
some new form will be created for defining non-constant variables.

Clearly the ability to create simple constants, as in

(defconstant pixel-depth 8)

is essential if code is to be both efficient and readable.

-- Scott

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