From: "Young H." <armywide@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T10:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols vs. constants?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Gennady Bystritsky
<Gennady.Bystritsky@quest.com> wrote:
> Constants are variables that can be assigned to any object (only once).

Hi,

It seems to me a constant can be changed during the runtime.

> Z="hello"
=> "hello"
> Z=1234
(irb):11: warning: already initialized constant Z
=> 1234
> Z
=> 1234

So does it mean, it can be changed, but not encouraged?

Regards,
Young.