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Re: little question once again

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Sep 27, 1999
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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, LT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Tracy Tees wrote:
>
> >Re Lionel's question for a term to unify constants & variables:
> >I would use the word "Values".  ie a constant is a permanent value, and a
> >variable is a changeable one.
> >Tracy.
> >

OK, I finally looked this up in some of my programming books.
Variables and constants are lumped together under the term "DATA"
(surprise!)
This explains BASIC's use of statements such as DATA 4,5,7
which are the equivalent of constants, since they are fixed at write time.
And obviously variables, once intiialized, are also data, which can change
during the run.
Procedures and functions are not data.
Operators are not data.
Literals are unnamed constants - so they may qualify as data, I dunno.

Irv