[Python-ideas] Re: Introduce constants in Python (constant name binding)

Reply to Steven - Literals mean 10 or 20. Can you assign something to literal? No. But you can assign something to a variable to point to another value. That's why I said constants should behave like literals. Point is constants are names bind to a value. We can change the value but not the name to point to a different value. Simply think "const type *pointer" not "type *pointer const". And by debugging I meant it would immediately be detectable if someone tries to change the constant or not. (Not a good argument in constant's favor though)