>It's a convention that constants be entered in all uppercase, but not necessary. You can use mixed or lower case if you want. That may help with the cluttered look.

That's an idea, though one might want to create a prefix to differentiate them, something like that. (let's see, I guess we can't use 'c' :)

Anyway, I think I'm finally getting the feeling of the idea here, that Jim & Erik were trying to tell me: Just keep *all* the constants in one header file, even if they're only used one time in one method, instead of declaring them inside a method. It may be a little difficult in design, but one can always print a hard copy of the header and tack it on the wall for reference :)

In the long run, this should be easier for maintenance.