What Bill said. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Damian Conway in PBP ch.4 argues for 'use Readonly;' rather than > 'constant'. > > > On 3/5/13, Andrew Langmead <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 08:12 -0500, Jordan Adler wrote: > >> Using the constant pragma is best. Perldoc constant. > > > > the constant pragma (or Readonly) does express intent better than > > prototyped subroutines named with uppercase letters that return constant > > values. That doesn't apply to the problem here. > > > > The issue here seems to be how to have a module full of constants that > > can be used in a (or more likely many different) modules, and the > > constant pragma doesn't implement that part of the solution. > > Mike's suggestion about exporting makes sense, but the one thing that > > seems a bit odd is that Greg's example didn't have separate packages for > > the separate files. Exporting is from one package to another, and a > > separate file doesn't create an implicit package. (it could be the > > packages were stripped in the "simplified" example posted but were in > > Greg's original code.) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Boston-pm mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > > > > -- > Bill > @n1vux [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
