[fpc-devel] Typed constants question

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, J. Gareth Moreton said:


>  For a more fundamental question... why are typed and untyped constants
> treated differently?

Turbo Pascal allowed to write them, depending on a switch. $J.
Delphi adds {$writeableconst on} iirc.

But even when this is off, you can't be sure it is on in a different module,
so exported constants can never be folded in. (except of course as a global
optimizations)

I guess for a local (implementation) constant this could be checked?