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Constants are always immutable, and may only be set to a constant expression, not the result of a function call or any other value that could only be computed at runtime.
Global variables are called
static
in Rust.
const MAX_POINTS: u32 = 100_000;
static HELLO_WORLD: &str = "Hello, world!";
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