IDEA: Use Unix-style chmod values for const and invariant

[Janice Caron]

On Nov 29, 2007 10:51 PM, Jesse Phillips <jessekphillips at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion invariant
> is a great keyword for what it does, don't ever change. But const like
> others is very much not descriptive of its use. I would think the two
> keywords should be,
>
> readonly ## which since keywords aren't usually 2, ro?
> invariant
>
> I'm not saying a name change is needed but maybe it should be looked into?

Has anyone thought of using "in" for readonly view? Keywords don't
come much shorter. Its existing use is about as useful as unary plus.