Re: my $pi is constant = 3;

[Larry Wall]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:22:04AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: According to S06:
: 
:     my $pi is constant = 3;

Perhaps the actual rewrite is

    my $pi is constant({ 3 });

much like

    state $where = $California;

is desugared to

    state $where is first({$California});

or some such, and

    has $what = $tail;

is desugared to

    has $what is build({$tail});

Then the form without the assignment:

    my $what is constant;

can notice that it doesn't actually have a compile-time value and revert
to run-time checking, as discussed in my other response, presuming we decide
to support that mode.

Larry