Re: Surprising Syntax

That's not surprising at all, because that's exactly what => is supposed to do: autoquote its left hand side if the left hand side is a simple unquoted string.

TEST is a simple unquoted string, hence it gets quoted, and hence, it's not a constant.

Compare:

    my %h = (time => 0);
    print keys %h;
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That also prints the string time, and not a number.

You could always use +TEST or TEST(), as discussed in the manual page of constant.pm.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Surprising Syntax by strat (Canon) on Aug 13, 2002 at 12:54 UTC
I agree. The surprise was just in the context that a v-string is not autoquoted. So in my eyes, the behaviour with the v-string is not the same as with constants (and other subs) which makes me think that the v-string behaviour really is a bug. Best regards, perl -e "s>>F>e=>y)\martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"	[reply]
Re: Surprising Syntax by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 13, 2002 at 13:02 UTC
The concensus on p5p seems to be that it's recognized as a bug. But to fix this (and some other v-string strangeness) isn't easy, as v-strings live on the point where the tokenizer, the parser and the magic system meet. It's where the dragons live. Abigail	[reply]