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Date:Mon Jan 26 20:55:24 1993 
Subject:Re: Re: dlocals etc. (and shallow binding) 
From:Luc Beaudoin 
Volume-ID:930126.04 

sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight) writes:

>     constant foo = {'dog'};
> then the variable foo is immutable -- it always points to the same

Ok, I thought there might have been some other technical meaning. (I
also thought we might want to say that constants aren't variables
since they're not variable (at the top level)! But given your
message and help files, I see that the usage is to refer to
constants as variables. Fair enough.)

Luc
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