Hi,

the docu of constant says that constants such as 

use constant DEBUG => 0;

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are inlined. In constant.pm, the corresponding lines of code are: 
...
if (@_ == 1) {
    my $scalar = $_[0];
    *{"${pkg}::$name"} = sub () { $scalar };
}
...

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But here, a local variable is defined and then used within a sub defined in this block. This should result in a closure rather than in an inlinable subroutine: whenever this block is executed, a new $scalar variable is created and it won't be removed since the subroutine accesses it. So, i understand closures to work. But then the body of the sub isn't a constant value, it is a variable, and so it should not result in an inlinable constant.

Well, i'm wrong? Are those constants really inlined? Bit if so, why does it work? Why aren't they closures?

In reply to Are "use constant" constants really inlined? by Darkwing

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