New statement proposal for Python

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"David LeBlanc" <whisper at oz.nospamnet> wrote in message
news:9gao5s$8ft$7 at 216.39.170.247...
> One thing that bugs me about Python is that there's no really good way to
> have named constants so that magic numbers can be avoided. Assigning to a
> variable that (should) never changes is not the same (i.e. the "should
> never" part).
>
> My proposal:
>
> alias httpport : 80

Hm. Unconventional use of the colon, isn't it? (For Python, I mean.)

Anyway - what is it you want with this? Efficiency, on enforcing
the non-changing state of the variables?

I can't really see the need for this myself - but if something like it is
ever implemented, I really hope we won't have similar solutions to those
used to simulate private variables. I mean...

>>> _const_httpport = 80
>>> _const_httpport = 90
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ConstError: constant '_const_httpport' is already defined

<shudder>

> Dave LeBlanc

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