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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: [OT] Re: local constants with switch
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On 8/21/2014 8:04 PM, Jim Gibson wrote:
> In article <slrnlvbume.fp3.avl@login.logic.tuwien.ac.at>, Andreas
> Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>
>>
>> PS: I agree, that "constant variable" is an oxymoron.
>>    A better term might have been "(constant) vari-un-able" ;-)
>>
>
> What about "const-able"?

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