Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.8.8-6.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man3/constant.3perl.gz
Tags: patch
The follow patch is wrong----maybe-------I have no idea.
-----------who knows...............not me.
----------I have now removed all usage of "constant" from my
program-----as it is abstruse to me.
--- /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/constant.pod 2006-08-07 00:00:08.000000000 +0800
+++ /tmp/constant.pod 2007-01-06 12:35:41.016419000 +0800
@@ -86,8 +86,12 @@
=head2 List constants
-Constants may be lists of more (or less) than one value. A constant
-with no values evaluates to C<undef> in scalar context. Note that
+Constants may be lists of more (or less) than one value:
+
+ use constant BLA => (0,4);
+ print (BLA)[1]; #prints 4
+
+A constant with no values evaluates to C<undef> in scalar context. Note that
constants with more than one value do I<not> return their last value in
scalar context as one might expect. They currently return the number
of values, but B<this may change in the future>. Do not use constants
@@ -120,7 +124,8 @@
use constant {
FOO => "A single value",
- BAR => "This", "won't", "work!", # Error!
+## BAR => "This", "won't", "work!", # Error!
+ NUBAR => ("But", "this", "will")
};
This is a fundamental limitation of the way hashes are constructed in
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