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| author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2014-08-25 22:05:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2014-08-25 22:17:04 -0700 |
| commit | ab8487cedd10a6f18f13043ee1e8fefb9a59e77f (patch) | |
| tree | 9414dbe2332761d2fdd9f53270395bff055250c8 | |
| parent | e6d9aa50648437da9c2e1f790a25e64e94bc5a30 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ab8487cedd10a6f18f13043ee1e8fefb9a59e77f.tar.gz | |
constant.pm: Document fully-qualified constant names
added a few commits ago.
| -rw-r--r-- | dist/constant/lib/constant.pm | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/dist/constant/lib/constant.pm b/dist/constant/lib/constant.pm index 64a20ba64c..d03ab5f599 100644 --- a/dist/constant/lib/constant.pm +++ b/dist/constant/lib/constant.pm @@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ as C<< Some::Package->CONSTANT >> or as C<< $obj->CONSTANT >> where C<$obj> is an instance of C<Some::Package>. Subclasses may define their own constants to override those in their base class. +As of version 1.32 of this module, constants can be defined in packages +other than the caller, by including the package name in the name of the +constant: + + use constant "OtherPackage::FWIBBLE" => 7865; + constant->import("Other::FWOBBLE",$value); # dynamically at run time + The use of all caps for constant names is merely a convention, although it is recommended in order to make constants stand out and to help avoid collisions with other barewords, keywords, and |