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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 08:16:01AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> writes:
>
> >> Tempting. If constant subs could be made to work as well, I think it
> >> would cover 90% of the uses I'd have for it.
> >
> > Unfortunately, constant subs would pose the same string/number
> > problem.
>
> This puzzles me... Can you explain?
(this may or may not be what FC had in mind):
Consider:
BEGIN {
$x = 1;
# print "x=$x\n";
}
use constant FOO => $x;
...
when(FOO)
Depending on how the constant value is is defined, it may be IOK or POK:
by uncommenting the print debug, we change FOO from integer to string.
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