In our previous episode, J. Gareth Moreton said:
> For a more fundamental question... why are typed and untyped constants
> treated differently?
Turbo Pascal allowed to write them, depending on a switch. $J.
Delphi adds {$writeableconst on} iirc.
But even when this is off, you can't be sure it is on in a different module,
so exported constants can never be folded in. (except of course as a global
optimizations)
I guess for a local (implementation) constant this could be checked?
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