Kevin Old wrote:
> On 12/16/05, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Kevin Old wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to define a constant hash and have the following:
>>>
>>>use constant STOPWORDS => map { lc $_ , 1 } qw(a about above across adj
>>>after);
>>>
>>>I do not get a hash from this.
>>You are defining STOPWORDS as a list.
>
> What is the correct way to define STOPWORDS as a hash?
You can't because perl implements constants using subroutines and subroutines
can only return a list.
John
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