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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Freezing a variable: how?
- Date: 28 Aug 1992 20:59:50 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1992Aug28.155335.12562@cs.cornell.edu>
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- Keywords: Freezing variables: Declaring as constant from here on after:
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- In article <1992Aug28.155335.12562@cs.cornell.edu> raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman) writes:
- >After an initial setup phase, I would like to declare a variable as
- >being unmodifiable. ... Is there a standard way of doing this?
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- No. Constantness of a variable is a lexical property, not a dynamic one.
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