constant - Perl pragma to declare constants

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Also, your program will be easier to read, more likely to be maintained (and maintained correctly), and far less likely to send a space probe to the wrong planet because nobody noticed the one equation in which you wrote <code>3.14195</code>.</p> <h1 id="NOTES"><a class="permalink" href="#NOTES">#</a>NOTES</h1> <p>The value or values are evaluated in a list context. You may override this with <code>scalar</code> as shown above.</p> <p>These constants do not directly interpolate into double-quotish strings, although you may do so indirectly. (See <a href="/5.005/perlref">perlref</a> for details about how this works.)</p> <pre><code>print "The value of PI is @{[ PI ]}.\n";</code></pre> <p>List constants are returned as lists, not as arrays.</p> <pre><code>$homedir = USERINFO[7]; # WRONG $homedir = (USERINFO)[7]; # Right</code></pre> <p>The use of all caps for constant names is merely a convention, although it is recommended in order to make constants stand out and to help avoid collisions with other barewords, keywords, and subroutine names. Constant names must begin with a letter.</p> <p>Constant symbols are package scoped (rather than block scoped, as <code>use strict</code> is). That is, you can refer to a constant from package Other as <code>Other::CONST</code>.</p> <p>As with all <code>use</code> directives, defining a constant happens at compile time. Thus, it's probably not correct to put a constant declaration inside of a conditional statement (like <code>if ($foo) { use constant ... }</code>).</p> <p>Omitting the value for a symbol gives it the value of <code>undef</code> in a scalar context or the empty list, <code>()</code>, in a list context. This isn't so nice as it may sound, though, because in this case you must either quote the symbol name, or use a big arrow, (<code>=></code>), with nothing to point to. It is probably best to declare these explicitly.</p> <pre><code>use constant UNICORNS => (); use constant LOGFILE => undef;</code></pre> <p>The result from evaluating a list constant in a scalar context is not documented, and is <b>not</b> guaranteed to be any particular value in the future. In particular, you should not rely upon it being the number of elements in the list, especially since it is not <b>necessarily</b> that value in the current implementation.</p> <p>Magical values, tied values, and references can be made into constants at compile time, allowing for way cool stuff like this. (These error numbers aren't totally portable, alas.)</p> <pre><code>use constant E2BIG => ($! = 7); print E2BIG, "\n"; # something like "Arg list too long" print 0+E2BIG, "\n"; # "7"</code></pre> <h1 id="TECHNICAL-NOTE"><a class="permalink" href="#TECHNICAL-NOTE">#</a><a id="TECHNICAL"></a>TECHNICAL NOTE</h1> <p>In the current implementation, scalar constants are actually inlinable subroutines. As of version 5.004 of Perl, the appropriate scalar constant is inserted directly in place of some subroutine calls, thereby saving the overhead of a subroutine call. See <a href="/5.005/perlsub#Constant-Functions">"Constant Functions" in perlsub</a> for details about how and when this happens.</p> <h1 id="BUGS"><a class="permalink" href="#BUGS">#</a>BUGS</h1> <p>In the current version of Perl, list constants are not inlined and some symbols may be redefined without generating a warning.</p> <p>It is not possible to have a subroutine or keyword with the same name as a constant. This is probably a Good Thing.</p> <p>Unlike constants in some languages, these cannot be overridden on the command line or via environment variables.</p> <p>You can get into trouble if you use constants in a context which automatically quotes barewords (as is true for any subroutine call). For example, you can't say <code>$hash{CONSTANT}</code> because <code>CONSTANT</code> will be interpreted as a string. Use <code>$hash{CONSTANT()}</code> or <code>$hash{+CONSTANT}</code> to prevent the bareword quoting mechanism from kicking in. 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