You can consider building a private module to define "seldom used" constants such as this

Well, I have Math::Float128 installed - so I can access the various __float128 constants using it. However, the tests need to work on perls where Math::Float128 is not installed, so I have to enter in the actual numeric value instead of (eg) Math::Float128::FLT128_MAX.

It's not often that I need to find hardware or geographical information - but whenever I do, it inevitably takes me bloody ages.
I like the idea of having such a "user" module !!

The main point of this thread was to get thoughts regarding whether the constant should be in the POSIX module.
And later it occurred to me that if it were now to be added to the POSIX module, it wouldn't really help (because it would still be missing on perls 5.22 to 5.26, anyway).

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^4: POSIX and -Dusequadmath by syphilis
in thread POSIX and -Dusequadmath by syphilis

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