Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?

[Andrew Gierth <andrew@...>]

>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@nec-i.de> writes:

 Oliver> Hi,

 Oliver> what about another approach to the 'no special character, but
 Oliver> no new keyword' problem? We could use a function call:

I think of all the proposed solutions this one is the one that most
misses the point. The constness or to-closeness is a property of the
VARIABLE, not of the value stored in it, and the syntax needs to reflect
that.

-- 
Andrew.