bug#58513: describe-function should say that defconst variables are constant

[Phil Sainty]

On 2022-10-15 01:23, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I thought it was just syntactic sugar, saying what our intentions
> for the variable is.

Yes, I think "not intended to be modified" is the gist.

Whether or not modifications would actually cause problems is unknown.

> But it doesn't really...  do anything

It does at least one thing different: if you load or eval a defconst
for a variable which already exists, the value is updated.