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From: tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Does extern "const" allocate storage?
Message-ID: <6985@ki4pv.uucp>
Date: 24 Mar 88 21:48:40 GMT
References: <7712@apple.Apple.Com> <7485@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: CompuData, DeLand
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Summary: so why call it "const", then?

In article <7485@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
) ...  Think of "const" as "readonly" and you'll have a
) good idea of its intended properties. ...

So, allow me to propose that it be called "readonly" instead of
"const".  As that would accurately describe it ("const" \fBis\fP
misleading), it would seem a better choice.
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