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From: pilgrimk@lafcol.UUCP (Kenwyn A. Pilgrim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TP50: Typed constants
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Message-ID: <1356@lafcol.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 19:07:32 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Center, Lafayette College
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Today I discovered something really bizarre.
I had two typed constants which looked like

const
   CompOne : integer = 10;
   CompTwo : integer = 15;

The value of these were changed just once in the program

   CompOne := 4;
   CompTwo := 7;

So far so good.

While running my program, I discovered that the variables
CompOne & CompTwo didn't contain the values 4 and 7 respectively,
but some values (they were actually values of some other typed
constants). [I'm using graphics and haven't yet figured out how 
to debug while in graphics mode :-( ]

After some fooling around, I decided to make these typed
constants 'variables', i.e.

 var
  CompOne : integer;
  CompTwo : integer;

and lo and behold, they didst come up with the values expected,
namely 4 and 7.

My question is:
  Is there a limit to the no. of typed constants?
  (my data size was < 2K bytes according to the Get Info option)

or what else do you think is wrong?

Remember, these variables were initialized only once and never
again were they operated on - implicitly or explicitly.
Your help would be appreciated.

-Kenwyn