At 08:57 2005-06-29, L. Neil Johnson wrote:
Problem Statement: The main program creates an array of pointers to
(Besides the point: there are no pointers in Perl. There are references though.)
anonymous arrays, each of which has about 10 elements. Since I am in the development phase, I keep changing the order and identity of the elements.
So maybe if the order isn't important you could use a hash instead and use meaningful names (strings) as keys?
Because there are many lines of code that reference those elements, I abandoned numeric offsets (indices) and went to variable offsets (actually I use typeglob refs to constants to catch instances where I might accidentally try to change one). I also coded a module with subroutines
This also sounds more like a hash.
Question: What's the best way to handle this situation?
If you're familiar with OO, that sounds like the way to go. You have data. You have subs that act on this data. That's a class right there.
Can I export those offsets from main:: and "use" them in the module? Or is there some pragma that can be used to generate compile-time constants with global visibility? Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Create a new module for the constants. perldoc Exporter or http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/lib/Exporter.pm http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/lib/Exporter.pm#How_to_Export http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/lib/Exporter.pm#How_to_Import /J -------- ------ ---- --- -- -- -- - - - - - Johan Lindström Sourcerer @ Boss Casinos johanl AT DarSerMan.com Latest bookmark: "TCP Connection Passing" http://tcpcp.sourceforge.net/ dmoz: /Computers/Programming/Languages/JavaScript/ 12 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
