best way to define package constants

Garrett Casey canetguy at home.com
Tue May 16 16:36:09 CDT 2000


~sdpm~
Jeff,

You would probably want to use the constant module.
You can find information about it at http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/lib/constant.html

-Garrett 

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On 5/16/00 at 2:18 PM jeff wrote:

>~sdpm~
>what is the best way to define a package constant? If I do
>
>    package PKGNAME;
>    $PKGNAME::var = "foo";
>
>the variable can be modified outside the package. But I don;t want that.
>Or I can make it a my and create a get routine for it. Or what?
>
>
>--
>Jeff Saenz
>jeff at planetoid.net
>
>
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