Hi Richard,
On 12/12/2013 08:56 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
I would like to set a series of magic numbers from the command line.
I have in a program
constant N-SCENARIOS = 10;
which works great. But I would like to set an option in the command
line, such as
perl6 program.p6 scenarios=15
.. then it's not a constant. So don't use a constant. Use a variable
instead.
I could have a normal scalar
my $scenarios ;
But that doesn't seem as elegant as creating a constant.
Using a constant for something that isn't a constant doesn't strike me
as elegant at all.
Note that in Perl 6, there is no guarantee that command line arguments
are known at compile time, so mucking with @*ARGS in BEGIN seems like a
very bad idea.
Cheers,
Moritz
