From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-07-27T01:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: local constant

Robert Dober wrote:

>>> Ruby expects to assign constants only once. If you called aidy() twice, the
>>> constant would re-assign, and it therefor would not be constant.
>>>
>> Excellant explanation.
> 
> But not quite correct, constants *can* be reassigned all you get is a warning.

Read my verbiage again.

And... constants are only labels. Unless you .freeze their targets, you can 
.replace them, etc. etc...

One almost misses C++, where they fill the language up with risks and loopholes, 
all to allow most 'const' things to optimize at compile time without global 
knowledge...

-- 
   Phlip