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in thread Reading the script code from itself
Disclaimer: I find the design questionable... you should consider not using constant (in fact Conway's Perl Best Practices recommends against it, e.g. Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitConstantPragma) and look at alternatives such as using a locked hash (or even a function) to return your "constant" values.
As is said, Perl gives you just enough rope to hang yourself with, so here you go:
package ConstExporter; use warnings; use strict; my %CONSTANTS = ( foo => "abc", bar => "xyz", quz => "123", ); sub import { my ($class, @export) = @_; my ($callpack) = caller; for my $exp (@export) { die "bad constant name '$exp'" unless exists $CONSTANTS{$exp}; no strict 'refs'; *{"${callpack}::$exp"} = sub () { $CONSTANTS{$exp} }; } } 1;
Use it in the usual way: use ConstExporter qw/foo bar/;
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Re^4: Reading the script code from itself
by v_melnik (Scribe) on Jun 25, 2014 at 11:43 UTC |