4.2 HLA Constant and Value Declarations
HLA's const and val sections let you declare symbolic constants. The const section lets you declare identifiers whose value is constant throughout compilation and runtime; the val section lets you declare symbolic constants whose values can change at compile time but whose values are constant at runtime (that is, the same name can have a different value at several points in the source code, but the value of a val symbol at a given point in the program cannot change while the program is running).
The const section appears in the same area of your program as the static, readonly, storage, and var sections. It begins with the const reserved word and has a syntax that is nearly identical to the readonly section; ...
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