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Daily Archives: August 16, 2016

The Thing About Constants

16 Tuesday Aug 2016

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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constants, defined values, global constants, literal values, literals, named constants, named values, numerical constants, P.J. Plauger, string constants

Along with “always use less-than” is another great piece of always advice, except this one is a prohibition, a never rather than an always (same thing, really, from a programmer’s point of view).

It has to do with never having literal values embedded in your code!

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