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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as DCL06-CPP. Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values in program logic.

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\[[Henricson 92|AA. C References#Henricson 92]\] Chapter 10, "[Constants|http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/lab/cplus/c++.rules/chap10.html]"
\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 6.3.2.1, "Lvalues, arrays, and function designators," Section 6.7, "Declarations," Section 6.7.2.2, "Enumeration specifiers," and Section 6.10.3, "Macro replacement"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "BRS Leveraging human experience"
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\[[Saks 02|AA. C References#Saks 02]\]
\[[Summit 05|AA. C References#Summit 05]\] [Question 10.5b|http://c-faq.com/cpp/constvsdefine.html]

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