why global immutable string variable cannot be used after "case"?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, September 23, 2011 01:38 Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> > If immutable cannot be used, what else can be used to replace #define
> > in C?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> 
> immutables are runtime constants. For case you need a
> compile time constant, which you can define with enum.
> 
> enum string mycase = "value";

Or you could even reduce it to

enum mycase = "value";

- Jonathan M Davis