Re: D5 Constant expression expected

From: Bruce Roberts (ber_at_bounceitattcanada.xnet)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:49:28 -0400

I suspect that Borland is headed in roughly the direction that you have
suggested but with the intention of keeping the Const keyword.

I personally would like to see Const kept for the declaration of 'true'
constants, including those of the typed variety. The word is familiar to
those familiar with Pascal and is much more descriptive, IMO, than Preset.

While Static is a familiar word, especially to those familiar with the C
family of languages, I'd much rather see Persistent as the keyword used to
identify local variables that have a local scope but a global lifetime. In
fact I'd like to see the keyword added syntactically as a modifier to
variable declarations, rather than introducing a new declarative section.

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