ARIANE: A Visual Programming Interface

The Item: Constant

Definition

A Constant is an item which represents a constant expression that can be used as a parameter value for other items.

Properties

Argument

The flag argument is used to indicate whether this item can be used as an argument of the script file or not. If true, the expression value specified is not used in the generated script file, but it gets its value from an argument of the script command line. If false, the value is generated in the script file.

Expression

An expression value can be any string or numerical value.

Result value

The result of the execution of a constant is the constant expression itself.

See also

• Item
• Eval
• Filename
• Format

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