Re: managing constants created with constant.pm

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Re: Re: managing constants created with constant.pm by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jul 14, 2003 at 08:50 UTC
In 5.8.1, `$ perl -e'use constant { FOO = 1, BAR = 2}; print FOO,BAR'` does not compile. With stringy commas, the combined form does work, $ perl -e'use constant { FOO => 1, BAR => 2}; print FOO,BAR' 12$ [download] '1' and '3' are not legal names for subs. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: managing constants created with constant.pm by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 14, 2003 at 08:57 UTC
You are right about the stringification (I missed that), but your post suggested the hashref as only argument was incorrect, and that you need a `use constant` for each constant used. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: managing constants created with constant.pm by bakunin (Scribe) on Jul 14, 2003 at 09:16 UTC
Abigail, I'm male!! :)))))))) And folks, please forget about the syntax!! Everything I code with constants work( as you all pointed out), and thanks :)))) The question still remains unanswered! Any ideas?? I know how to solve the problem. I just have a feeling that it is not the perl way! Ogla	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: managing constants created with constant.pm by thinker (Parson) on Jul 14, 2003 at 09:36 UTC
Hi, Abigail, I'm male!! :)))))))) Am I they only monk who couldn't help but laugh at the irony here. :-) cheers thinker	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: managing constants created with constant.pm by bakunin (Scribe) on Jul 14, 2003 at 09:29 UTC
oh, by the way, I didn't like the line "... constants don't do what you think they do" Please be more specific. And in a 4000 line OO environment, I think, they exactly do what I expect them to do. OK, you can check ming SWF library, and maybe see my point of view. http://ming.sourceforge.net The constants are used as "FLAGS". This is very neat in my opinion. And one should have way to manage these flags. That's all I'm asking.	[reply]