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Re: Initializing variables on declarations

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Apr 04, 2007
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Most of the examples show a constant assigned in initialization on declaration.
Would it complicate matters to make it the rule that only constants or constant
expressions are allowed?

Legal:

integer x = 5
atom y = 3.1415927 * 8 * 8
sequence foo = {65, 66, "C"}

Illegal:

integer y = x + 320 * v
sequence foo = {bar, baz, zoo}

Of course then you get to the point whether the identifier of a constant could
be used...

Just musing here.
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j.