On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:16:11 -0000, Pense, Joachim wrote:
>So I'd rather write $VERBOSE and $STOP_ON_ERROR, living with the minor
>risk that I might inadvertently change the values.
You can reduce the risk by making them pseudo-constants (globals only):
*VERBOSE = \1;
print $VERBOSE;
That takes the "inadvertently" away, a normal assignment or modification
will now complain.
$VERBOSE++;
-->
Modification of a read-only value attempted at ...
Of course, you can still change the value in the same way as you
originally set it.
--
Bart.
