At 12:48 PM 03/02/2001 -0700, Joe wrote:
>is there any real benefit to declaring a CONSTANT over just defining a
>variable?
The fact they can't be overwritten makes them more appropriate for true
constants, absolutely no way to change their values. I frequently use them
in include files to set widths, etc., that are brought into all the pages
in a project.
Plus, they have global scope - great if you are in the habit of forgetting
global declarations in functions <g>.
And my guess is their is less overhead in using them, even in an
interpreted environment.
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