Constants are 'set' when they are constructed. Read-only attributes are set at construction time. In neither case can you choose to write later.

Are you gonna start calling read-only memory pages write-once too? What about constant parameters and constant variables in C? I'd like you to try to tell the author of Readonly that his module name is indefensible. (Why do you always have to be such a jerk?) All four are constructed at run-time.

"Write-once" is used to describe something whose initial state can be changed only only once (e.g. some memory chips).

"Read-only" is used to describe something that can no longer be changed. It obviously does not preclude the thing from being initialised at construction (e.g. ROM chips, constants, and object attributes).

In reply to Re^6: Psychic Disconnect and Object Systems by ikegami
in thread Psychic Disconnect and Object Systems by John M. Dlugosz

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