[Aldor-l] exports and constants

Ralf Hemmecke ralf at hemmecke.de
Mon Jul 24 18:02:43 EDT 2006


> | In Aldor you cannot have a: Integer and a: String in the same scope if 
> | they are variables. Constants are different.
> 
> still, you can use "pretend" like in C, no?

Of course, you can. But "pretend" should be only allowed to people who 
really know what they are doing. One can do all sorts of misuse.
Pretend is telling the compiler that *you* know better (or worse). So if 
you use pretend and run into a segfault later, don't complain, you 
called for it. ;-)

Ralf



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