In “Constants” (JavaWorld, March 30, 2001), I wrote, “I’d be interested to hear how others declare their constants and why. I can post your responses in a future Q&A.” Well, here are some reader ...

Does it ever make sense to declare a variable in C or C++ as both volatile (in other words, “ever-changing”) and const (“read-only”)? If so, why? And how should you combine volatile and const properly ...

In the bad old days, I only used constants as a way to assign names to values. Things like this, for example: Private Const DaysInWeek As Integer = 7 However, these days most of my variables are ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.