Re: How to create a "CONSTANT"

You're talking about global variables, not constants. Globals must be declared with the vars pragma or fully-qualified.

use strict;
use vars qw($PIE);
$PIE = 'Pumpkin';
print "pie: $PIE\n";
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Re: Re: How to create a "CONSTANT" by sauoq (Abbot) on Jun 05, 2003 at 23:31 UTC
You're talking about global variables, not constants. He's talking about old-school constants... (you know... the way we used to do it... back in the paradise garage...) `$ perl -le '*PIE=\"Apple"; $PIE = "foo"' Modification of a read-only value attempted at -e line 1.` [download] Please excuse my Doc Martin impression. -sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";	[reply] [d/l]