in reply to Re: Typeglobs and constant variables
in thread Typeglobs and constant variables

G'day AnomalousMonk,

My preference would be for Const::Fast. My reasons for this are in "Re: Use of Constants". I am not, however, on a crusade to promote one over the other. :-)

-- Ken

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Re^3: Typeglobs and constant variables
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 31, 2013 at 09:12 UTC
    My preference would be for Const::Fast. My reasons for this are in "Re: Use of Constants"

    One caveat -- beside the build problem -- of that module that it fails to mention, is that its "constants" aren't (compile-time) constants, but rather runtime variables that cannot be varied [sic], and thus they do not trigger Perl's compile-time optimisations.

    For me, that issue alone negate the purpose of using constants almost completely. Combined with the other two issues render it a non starter.

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Re^3: Typeglobs and constant variables
by Anonymous Monk on May 31, 2013 at 09:37 UTC
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