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Dynamically-valued constants: an underused language feature

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Jonathan L. SchillingAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 30, Issue 4

Pages 13 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/202176.202177

Published: 01 April 1995 Publication History

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Languages such as Ada and C++ allow programmers to declare an object as a constant, even though the object has a dynamic initial value. The benefits of using this construct are given. A sample of actual C++ code is measured to see how often dynamically-valued constants are used, and how often they could be used. This result is compared to previously published results for Ada sample code, and to some Ada code where this feature was consciously employed. The comparisons indicate that this language feature is generally underused. Possible reasons for this underuse are discussed.

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Dynamically-valued constants: an underused language feature
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 30, Issue 4

April 1995

74 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/202176

Editor:
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Skyrme ARodriguez NIerusalimschy R(2019)A survey of support for structured communication in concurrency control modelsJournal of Parallel and Distributed Computing10.1016/j.jpdc.2013.11.00574:4(2266-2285)Online publication date: 4-Jan-2019
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