Sisyphus wrote: > I'm a little puzzled, however. In 'perldoc constant' I see: > > -- quote -- > As with all "use" directives, defining a constant happens at compile time. > -- end quote -- > > It seems to me, therefore, that foo() is being called and evaluated at > compile-time. Is that so ? I thought foo() would be unreachable until > runtime.
Presumably that's why it can't take the forward reference (which it could at runtime). -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
