defvar vs defconst

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Hi List,

when you define a variable that should not be touched/set by the user of
your library (which is most likely a programmer), but will be frequently
set to a new value by your own program - would you call that a VAR or a
CONST?

(defconst ...) signals "don't touch this", which seems to the right
thing in this case, but OTOH it is a bit strange to call something a
constant that not only can be changed, but will actually be changed
quite often.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten