Posted by gosha bine on 08/15/07 08:51

On 14.08.2007 22:49 Water Cooler v2 wrote:
> what's the use of having constants in an interpreted language like
> php, when there's no compile cycle?

php is not an interpreted language in a strict sense, it's first
compiled to bytecodes and then executed.

>
> Other than enforcing programmer discipline or affording a convinience
> for the programmers, I don't see any.

Programming languages are all about discipline and convenience.
Otherwise, we would be still programming in machine codes like 50 years ago.



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