I don't understand your objection to "bareword subs". Perl understands them perfectly well if they are defined before they're called.

In practice, it's pretty rare that constants need to be interpolated, except maybe when debugging with print.

You can make $EINTR a constant with: 

*EINTR = \4;

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but that kind of thing is not always portable between systems. Because the value must be a reference to a literal in source, afaik that would require some kind of source filter to get portability. Not worth it, IMO.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Import constants as scalar instead of bareword sub by Zaxo
in thread Import constants as scalar instead of bareword sub by powerman

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