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LET-CONSTANT and DECLARE (CONSTANT

To: "common-lisp" <common-lisp@su-ai.ARPA>
Subject: LET-CONSTANT and DECLARE (CONSTANT
From: "AITG::VANROGGEN" <vanroggen%aitg.decnet@hudson.dec.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1987 20:09:00 -0000
Cc: vanroggen
Reply-to: "AITG::VANROGGEN" <vanroggen%aitg.decnet@hudson.dec.com>

Perhaps the complaint about "binding constants" isn't about the
constancy of association between a variable and its value, but about
whether the value happens to be read-only.

This would permit additional compiler optimizations regarding state
dependent functions like ELT.

Related question: are quoted constants in compiled functions "read-only"?
How about initial values for DEFCONSTANTs?

Is this what was intended by DECLARE (CONSTANT V)?

			---Walter
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