Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

[Autrijus Tang]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:41:17PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> : If yes, what does it desugar to?
> : 
> :     my $pi is constant := 3;
> :     my $pi is constant ::= 3;
> 
> In this case it desugars to
> 
>     my $pi is constant = 3;
> 
> :-)

However, I wonder if the intention was to replace the Perl 5 form of:

    use constant PI => 3;

Which is a binding that happens at compile time.  It'd be somewhat
strange if this dies with undef -- or even 'Str':

    my Str $x is constant = 'foo';
    BEGIN { die $x };

Or do you think that people should really write ::= for constants?

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

pgpQWObbpwRkC.pgp
Description: PGP signature