Re: e and pi

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Having defconst not introduce special variables would be non-ideal
>> (in my opinion), since defconst does do that in Common Lisp.
> In CL it's called DEFCONSTANT and constants are not special.  Using a
> constant in SETQ, LET, or LAMBDA is not allowed (it's an error in most
> implementations, just like setq on t is an error in Elisp).

In Elisp it's not (yet) an error, but the byte-compiler will complain.


        Stefan "don't worry about the «yet», it's likely to stay that
                way for another decade"