Re: Behavior of compile-time constants?

No, all you need to know is how => works. You have the same problem in:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings 'all';

sub foo {
    my %hash = (shift => 1);
    print keys %hash, "\n";
}

foo "bar";

__END__
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That prints shift and not bar.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Behavior of compile-time constants? by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 14, 2002 at 18:24 UTC
My recommendation to him was to use variables for his constants. (Yes, I know that sentence sounds bizarre.) Variables certainly behave differently in different contexts, but people are not as likely to make mistakes with them because they know they've got a variable rather than some mysterious constant thing.	[reply]
Re: Behavior of compile-time constants? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 14, 2002 at 18:29 UTC
Let's go crazy and use the worst of both worlds: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings 'all'; use variable i => 0; use variable array => []; array = [2, 4, 5, 8]; for (i = 0; i < 4; i ++) { print array -> [i], "\n"; } __END__ 2 4 5 8` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]