From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2008-07-27T04:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: local constant

> Read my verbiage again.

Not trying to nitpick but I agree with Robert Dober about the 
formulation:

>> If you called aidy() twice, the constant would re-assign, 
>> and it therefor would not be constant.

> constants *can* be reassigned

Especially since the error will happen no matter if the constant already 
existed, or did not yet exist.

Ruby allows one to reassign constants freely, while only raising a 
warning.
One can even go further and misuse constants as hash/array storage 
places and put stuff in or get it out again easily.

Ruby seems to dislike this only if it is done within a method, by 
raising the "dynamic constant assignment" error.
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