Sat Sep 12 17:16:47 2009: Request 49619 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by dbec...@roadrunner.com
Queue: Win32-Process
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #49619] Bareword "NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS" not
allowed while "strict subs"
Broken in: 0.14
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: dji...@cpan.org
Status: rejected
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49619 >
Jan Dubois via RT wrote:
>
> This has nothing to do with "strict subs". When you "use
> Win32::Process" then you are importing several symbols at compile time
> into your own namespace. If you simply "require Win32::Process" at
> runtime, then those symbols have not been imported and must be used
> fully qualified:
>
> Win32::Process::NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS()
>
> instead of
>
> NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
>
> This is not a bug in the module; this is just how Perl works.
Actually the trick is the () on the end. I kept trying to do:
require Win32::Process;
import Win32::Process qw(NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS);
my $flags = NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS;
But all I needed to do was add the ():
my $flags = NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS();
