Question

I have seen these two approaches for constant declaration which are to be used in the project.

1. Constants in a public module.

2. Constants in a NonInheritable(Sealed) class

Does anybody uses any other approach for the constant declartion ?

Is there any difference between these approaches, any pros and cons ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Put the constant in the class where it’s most relevant – e.g. Math.Pi, Int32.MinValue etc.

I’ve seen various constants which should actually be enums, too – particularly for status codes etc.

I don’t think it’s wise to create a class (or module) just for constants unless there really is no sensible class that those constants are associated with.