{"id":39623,"date":"2004-04-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/04\/27\/why-doesnt-c-have-const\/"},"modified":"2004-04-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T07:00:00","slug":"why-doesnt-c-have-const","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040427-00\/?p=39623","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn&#039;t C# have &quot;const&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  I was going to write about why C# doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;const&#8221;,  but  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/slippman\/\">Stan Lippman<\/a>  already discussed this in  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/slippman\/archive\/2004\/01\/22\/61712.aspx\">  A Question of Const<\/a>, so now I don&#8217;t have to.  <\/p>\n<p>  (And another example of synchronicity:  After I wrote up this item and tossed it into the queue,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ericgu\/archive\/2004\/04\/22\/118238.aspx\">  Eric Gunnerson took up the topic as well<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write about why C# doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;const&#8221;, but Stan Lippman already discussed this in A Question of Const, so now I don&#8217;t have to. (And another example of synchronicity: After I wrote up this item and tossed it into the queue, Eric Gunnerson took up the topic as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-39623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I was going to write about why C# doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;const&#8221;, but Stan Lippman already discussed this in A Question of Const, so now I don&#8217;t have to. (And another example of synchronicity: After I wrote up this item and tossed it into the queue, Eric Gunnerson took up the topic as well.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}