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const char DELIMITER = ':'would be actually useful.EMPTY_STRINGis beneficial. (1) I can much more easily find all uses ofEMPTY_STRINGin a file than I can find all uses of"". (2) when I seeEMPTY_STRINGI know for darn sure that the developer intended that string to be empty, and that it is not a mis-edit or a placeholder for a string to be supplied later. Now, you claim that by me making this argument that you may qualify my knowledge, and safely ignore me forever. So, how do you qualify my knowledge? And are you planning on ignoring my advice forever? I have no issue either way.constprovides is that it won't change at runtime (after compilation), though I do agree with you that the semantic meaning of theconstis far more important than its use as a change management tool. That said, I can certainly imagine aconst EARLIEST_OS_SUPPORTEDwhich is not only semantically consistent, but will also change over time as the program evolves and old cruft is removed.EMPTY_STRING; that a well-designed IDE will surface tools that allow me to treat this entity symbolically, rather than syntactically. Generalize this to a fourth argument: that the library of code analysis tools that sits below the IDE may allow for advanced programmatic analysis of code correctness at the symbolic level. A developer who wishes to take advantage of tools more advanced than those written literally 40 years ago need only make small changes to their habits in order to reap the rewards of advanced tooling.