Re: Dylan Constants

[duncan@stowe.bdsw.com (Rich Duncan)]

>From: 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.
>

Probably a good choice since that will make DEFINE semantically closer
to #DEFINE in C and %REPLACE in PL/I.

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