From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-09-19T00:49:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21333] Re: const-correctness

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> In Ruby, constant is an attribute of the name, not the object. 'X' is
> constant, so if you reassign to it, you get a warning. However, the
> object the constant references is still capable of receiving messages
> and changing its contents accordingly.
>
> Dave

Ahhh, so to make a C analogy, Ruby constants are more like:

  char * const x;

instead of:

  char const * x;

Is this right?

Paul