Constant statement limitations.

[Alex Tweedly]

The dictionary entry for constant says:
>
> If you place the constant statement in a handler, you can use the 
> constant anywhere in the handler. If you place the constant statement 
> in a script outside any handler, you can use the constant anywhere in 
> the handlers of that script.
NB - "can use the constant anywhere *in the handlers* of that script".

That was a reasonable limitation in traditional Livecode - but seems 
less reasonable in the context of revserver. It is (I think) common 
practice, and it's certainly possible, to have quite a lot of the 
"top-level" code be in the script itself, perhaps with html intermingled 
with it, i.e. not be in a handler.

So the obvious, simple code fragment

constant K = 3.14159
put $_POST["diameter"] * K

doesn't give the expected result :-)

Anyone see any reason why constants *shouldn't* be usable outside handlers ?

Thanks
-- Alex.