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From the February 2010 Issue of Prestwood eMag

Coder General Coding Concepts:

Computer Language Constants

By Mike Prestwood

Posted 16 years ago on 12/16/2008

Take Away:

A constant is just like a variable (it holds a value) but, unlike a variable, you cannot change the value of a constant.

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Computer Language Constants

A constant is just like a variable (it holds a value) but, unlike a variable, you cannot change the value of a constant.

Tip: Many programmers have adopted a standard of all uppercase with underscores separating words for constants but personally I don't like that standard. All caps just slows me down so I prefer to start all constants with a lowercase k as in kUniversalConstant. If a constant is global in scope I start it with an uppercase k as in KUniversalConstant. I really don't like going against trends and this was a hard decision for me. Study your language and decide for yourself. For VBA languages, Microsoft migrated from the all caps suggestion to use camel caps preceded with con suggestion as in conUniversalConstant.

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I always begin the name of a constant that has a global scope with an uppercase k, for example snow rider 3d.

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