[mercury-users] Named constants?

Julien Fischer juliensf at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu May 13 13:24:23 AEST 2004


On Thu, 13 May 2004, Peter Hawkins wrote:

> Hi...
>
> How does one create some sort of named constant in Mercury? (as one might do
> with a #define in C).
>
> Should I just do this?
> :- func my_constant = int.
> my_constant = 42.
>
That's the usual way.

> Surely there is a more compact notation...
>
You can't get much more compact than the above (in Mercury at least).

Cheers,
Julien.
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