On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 07:14:41AM -0000, Shreyan Avigyan wrote: > Reply to Steven D'Aprano: > > > But you've said that you want constants to be capable of being rebound > > to a new value. So your constants are identical to variables. > > No, not at all. Actually to be clear, constants are supposed to behave > like literals but in implementation they are nothing more than names > that are bind to a value.
I don't know how you think literals behave and you haven't told us! "Nothing more" than a name bound to a value is a variable. Why do you call it a constant if it is nothing more than a variable? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/4UXYDVE4LV3F4ZNUTN7B5LNLYEZ52TDZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/