It's sometimes very handy to be able to get constant field values in encoders. Consider following composite type:
<composite name="Price">
<type name="mantissa" primitiveType="int64"/>
<type name="exponent" primitiveType="int8" presence="constant">-7</type>
</composite>
If you encode some price value given in double, you need to know the value of the exponent, but now there is no way to get it from an encoder.
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