Subject: bug#58513: describe-function should say that defconst variables are constant

From: Phil Sainty <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:35:41 +1300

On 2022-10-15 01:23, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I thought it was just syntactic sugar, saying what our intentions
> for the variable is.

Yes, I think "not intended to be modified" is the gist.

Whether or not modifications would actually cause problems is unknown.

> But it doesn't really...  do anything

It does at least one thing different: if you load or eval a defconst
for a variable which already exists, the value is updated.