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stronger warnings about changing constants in help and docs #28711

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@JeffBezanson JeffBezanson commented Aug 16, 2018

ref #28689

@JeffBezanson JeffBezanson added the docs This change adds or pertains to documentation label Aug 16, 2018
warning from the compiler. The only strict requirement is that the *type* of the
variable does not change, which is why `const` variables are much faster than regular
globals.
In some cases changing the value of a `const` variable is allowed, and results
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Instead of "allowed" perhaps say that it will not error?

@JeffBezanson JeffBezanson merged commit 4b103ef into master Sep 7, 2018
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