Timeline for Can a UUID be called a constant?
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| Nov 20, 2022 at 10:57 | answer | added | Goodies | timeline score: -2 | |
| Nov 19, 2022 at 12:37 | vote | accept | Clara | ||
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| Nov 19, 2022 at 3:46 | comment | added | Filip Milovanović | "Can values which are only assigned once but have some intrinsic "randomness" to them — for example, a UUID which is only set once per process, ever be called constant?" - they most certainly can. The nature of the value does not matter at all, doesn't even matter what the value actually is, a constant is just something that can't be changed throughout the execution of the program (every mention can be substituted with the exact same value). From the perspective of writing programs, we're mostly interested in named constants, precisely because we don't care about the actual value. | |
| Nov 19, 2022 at 1:28 | history | edited | Clara | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Nov 19, 2022 at 1:19 | history | asked | Clara | CC BY-SA 4.0 |