Re: Trying to understand the 'use constant' pragma

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Assuming that you have control over MyObject.pm, perhaps the easiest solution is to use your constants internally to the module and accept a string in the constructor:

my $obj = MyObject->new(level=>'LOG_DEBUG');
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You can use a hash to translate the level string to your internal code as required.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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Re^2: Trying to understand the 'use constant' pragma by webengr (Pilgrim) on Sep 07, 2005 at 02:35 UTC
This is a reasonable solution, and does what I originally intended. I was just wondering if there is a way of making the "use constant" effect extend further, but since the input from the xml file is text strings, this doesn't appear to be possible. Thanks! PCS	[reply]

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