From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T15:32:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols vs. constants?

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Gennady Bystritsky
<Gennady.Bystritsky@quest.com> wrote:

>> So does it mean, it can be changed, but not encouraged?
>
> You may say so. I just did not want to bring it up for simplicity sake. For me any warning produced by my code must be fixed, and in this case the fix would be to check that constants are assigned only once. I personally would prefer an exception for such cases.

so long as remove_const still would work, I think making reassignment
an exception would be a good idea.   This way, you'd need to be
explicit about your decision to change what a constant points to.

-greg