>>>>> "CO" == Chas Owens <[email protected]> writes:
CO> Ah, use constant is just sugar for what he is doing. And, given that CO> he is only adding the constants because they don't exist in very old CO> versions of Perl, it is likely that he is trying to support a version CO> of Perl prior to 5.004 (which introduced the constant pragma). and if i could do use constant i would still need to select which value to use at compile time. that wouldn't be very clean with each constant needing to do an N way check on the platform and selecting the right value. there might be a way to do it but this way is cleaner. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
