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		skeezyjefferson 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack on mutable variables I argue in your example there are 6 constants, not 1 constant with 6 different values, though this could be semantics ie we could both be right in some way

Zambyte 40 days ago [–]

Exactly. As said higher in this comment chain:

> So, constant, but repeatedly redefined.

skeezyjefferson 39 days ago | [–]

it was constant if it could have been redefined, by the basic definition of what constant means. so no, not constant, but constants

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