On Thursday 13 March 2008 15:27:18 herbert breunung wrote: > currently just used for compile time constants like $?LINE allright so > far so good. > but why not use that for all constants like > > my $?constant = 5; > > so it's compiletime (even late compiletime like in eval blocks) fix > binding to a value.
Because that variable comes from a different place than the $? constants. -- c