Re: Re: Handling of constants in strings

Miguel Cruz schrieb in Nachricht ... >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 Yeah, you are right about that! But since you have to take the constant out of the string (with {} or ". .") it shouldn't be a problem to use constants. Correct? Uwe