On 5/22/08, Bernardo Rechea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Prather wrote:
>
> > which can also be written:
> >
> > sub needs_trinket () { 0 }
> > and
> > sub needs_trinket () { 1 }
> >
> > perl optimizes things with empty prototypes that return a constant.
>
>
> That's quite a wonderful bit of arcana. At least for me: I don't use
> prototypes, so I never paid much attention to the prototypes section in the
> camel book.
>
>
> Bernardo
>
Coincidentally, use constant is just a nicer syntax for this. The
relevant line in constant.pm is:
*$full_name = sub () { $scalar };
Hooray Perl. :)
Shawn
