Can a constant be global?

[James Spencer]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:42 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Graham Samuel wrote:
>
>> Yup, that's what I've always done in the past: I just thought   
>> constant declarations might help,
>
> Custom properties can act like global constants.

This may be true but it strikes me as an "expensive" means of  
creating a global constant.  The whole idea of constants in most  
languages is that they can be substituted by the compiler so they are  
a zero runtime cost.  This would not be true for a property which as  
to be extracted from somewhere at run time.

James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN

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