Sure, but that’s an extremely shortsighted assumption. Engineering projects change scope over time. Maybe that particular arbitrary decision won’t change, but t

Sure, but that’s an extremely shortsighted assumption. Engineering projects change scope over time. Maybe that particular arbitrary decision won’t change, but there must be 1,000 other decisions, some of which might be revisited at some point. There’s no need to artificially handicap yourself for zero benefit in return. Never mind that you’re introducing the possibility for bugs: the compiler would catch if you type the wrong symbol name, but not if you type 129 accidentally. And anyone reading or maintaining that code now has several additional needless WTFs they’ll encounter in the course of making sense of it.