Re: [rt.cpan.org #49619] Bareword "NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS" not allowed while "strict subs"

[Bill Luebkert via RT]

Sat Sep 12 17:16:47 2009: Request 49619 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by dbec...@roadrunner.com
       Queue: Win32-Process
     Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #49619] Bareword "NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS" not 
allowed while "strict subs"
   Broken in: 0.14
    Severity: (no value)
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: dji...@cpan.org
      Status: rejected
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49619 >


Jan Dubois via RT wrote:
> 
> This has nothing to do with "strict subs".  When you "use
> Win32::Process" then you are importing several symbols at compile time
> into your own namespace.  If you simply "require Win32::Process" at
> runtime, then those symbols have not been imported and must be used
> fully qualified:
> 
>     Win32::Process::NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS()
> 
> instead of
> 
>     NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
> 
> This is not a bug in the module; this is just how Perl works.

Actually the trick is the () on the end.  I kept trying to do:

        require Win32::Process;
        import Win32::Process qw(NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS);

        my $flags = NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS;

But all I needed to do was add the ():

        my $flags = NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS();