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Subject: RE: [cinjug-users] Constants imply DP (was: Question on last Monday's meeting)
From: "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:12:03 -0600
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Thread-topic: [cinjug-users] Constants imply DP (was: Question on last Monday's meeting)
> From: Mark Windholtz [mailto:windholtz@xxxxxxxxx] 

>   So sorry, Constants still imply DP.

I'm not sure I understand this.  *All* uses of constants?

For example, Class names in Ruby are Constants that are bound to class
objects.  There is little difference between:

  PI = 3.1415972

and

  SomeClass = Class.new

Surely you are not claiming that Ruby is only capable of DP.

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