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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: So You Think You Can Const?
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:39:10 +0100
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On 15/01/2025 03:09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> So ... the form of expressions allowed with “const” ... do we call them
> “const-able”?
> 
> Seems this term could have unfortunate implications if used carelessly ...
> wonder how you would police such a thing ...

I think we could merge in some ideas from INTERCAL and get a modern and 
very safe programming language full of "PLEASE const-able" expressions!

:-)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL>