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SBasic User's Manual SBasic Version 2.7 Page 20
Printed: December 5, 1999
SBasic allows you to create named 16-bit constants. You create
constants with the CONST statement. For example:
const bar = 34
creates the SBasic constant BAR with a value of 34. CONST statements
may refer to previously defined constants, and may include any number
of math operations. CONST statements may not, however, refer to
variables, as the contents of variables are not known at compile-time.
If you refer to a variable inside a CONST statement, the compiler will
report an error.
You must create a constant before your code can reference that
constant. This means that you will usually place all CONST statements
in a block at the beginning of your SBasic source file.
Note that named constants do not consume any space in the final
executable file. They only exist as equates in the assembler source
file generated by SBasic.