Why a constant is not constant?

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 22:42:55 -0400 (EDT)

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Hello:

  While translating the C-style headers into CP I tried
the following:

MODULE EzusbAPI;
IMPORT SYSTEM, WinApi;

CONST
 GENERIC_READ* = 080000000H;
 GR* = SYSTEM.VAL(SET, 080000000H);

The second const does not compile. The error message says
"expression should be constant". Why an error? It is a constant.

This is somewhat an academic question because I can write
an appropriate SET by hand, but I was puzzled. This error
does not make good sense to me.

I am sending this message to the mailing list rather than
to support, because the mailing list has been sleepy lately.
No errors, no bugs in BlackBox? Only unimportant problems
like this one? Or is nobody using BlackBox anymore ;-)?

Wojtek Skulski skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy

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