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From: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: wishlist: const
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>         const($c) = 1;             # initialize $c

It makes more sense this way:
	$c = 1;
	readonly($c);
or
	readonly($c = 1);

If you want a const declaration rather than a readonly statement, you
can fake it with subroutines:
	sub c { 1; }
In fact, the makelib script uses this style of constant.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu