Re: Constants and Access Modifiers

Hi! > Yes, Dart has a different understanding of const, which is exactly why I > posted it for you guys. In the hope that it helps to get more different > views on the topic. Currently you are too concentrated on how it is > implemented in PHP at this time, and argue that it is impossible to > diverge from that path. Which is simply not true, we only have to ensure > backwards compatibility. I am not arguing it's impossible, I am arguing it is not a good idea. We have the concept of constants in this language, and bolting on it a completely different concept from different language, which by coincidence was named with the same term, would only be a source of confusion. If we wanted immutable objects in language - which I am not convinced at all we do, but assuming for a minute we did - there's no reason to conflate them with constants as we have them now. These are different things. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com