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veilrap | 4 months ago

He’s implying that the variable it’s being defined within the loop. So, constant, but repeatedly redefined.

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ghurtado|4 months ago

That's the opposite of what any reasonable engineer means by "constant".

fnordsensei|4 months ago

That’s the point, you’re just haggling about scopes now. All the way from being new per program invocation to new per loop.

Immutability doesn’t have this connotation.

davrosthedalek|4 months ago

No? It has a lifetime of one loop duration, and is constant during that duration. Seems perfectly fine to me.