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From: twagner@baobab.berkeley.edu (Tim Wagner)
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Subject: Re: 'const' revisited
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Date: 27 Aug 90 00:33:10 GMT
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Unfortunately, what does one do when per-instance information is
required?  The following cannot possibly be acceptable to anyone:

#pragma this-means-really-const
const i;
#pragma this-means-interface-const
const j;
...

'pragma' as a replacement for language-integrated type information
would be the supreme sacrifice in this case.