in reply to Re^2: Constants and Subclasses...
in thread Constants and Subclasses...

Cool, I didn't realize you could constant->import. I had tried to use constant NAME => value inside that loop, but (obviously) it didn't work.

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Re^4: Constants and Subclasses...
by diotalevi (Canon) on Dec 22, 2006 at 18:56 UTC

    Well sure. use constant FOO => 'bar'; is just shorthand for the following:

    BEGIN {
    require constant;
    constant->import( FOO => 'bar' );
}

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