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Re: Dylan Constants



At  7:42 AM 10/20/92 -0400, Scott_Fahlman@SEF1.SLISP.CS.CMU.EDU wrote:
> 
> 
>      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.

That's correct.