On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > This method of creating constants has three serious drawbacks: They're also quite heavy, although I think that CONSTSUB was to take care of that. What I never understood, although I'm sure there's a very simple reason, is why it wasn't simply made a read-only scalar. -- Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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