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Re:Modern C, Second Edition by tempodox on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:37AM (#21014145)
> It's mostly useless to declare a variable that cannot be assigned.

So all functional languages (where immutability is the default) are mostly useless?

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Re:Modern C, Second Edition by loeg on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:44AM (#21023388)
If you declare a variable in this way in C, it can never be assigned. Not once — zero times.

What is or is not good practice in C has little bearing on or relationship to functional languages, so I'm not sure why you bring them up in this context.

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