Re: Re: Handling of constants in strings

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Uwe Birkenhain wrote: > A question - since english is not my first language - what do you mean with > >It's not all that common to bury constants in strings > > Is something bad about it? I think so. It would slow parsing down to a crawl and create a host of ambiguities if every letter that ever appeared in a string had to be compared against the list of defined constants (after all, you might have a constant called 'a'). With normal variables, it only has to worry about it when there's a $ before it or {} around it, which is much simpler. miguel