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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: local constants with switch
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:48:29 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:50:12 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:

> 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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