From: Thomas Sondergaard <thomas@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T09:41:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining constants in global scope


> Make sense now?

Well what doesn't make sense to the OP (me!) is that I can read constants
like this:

::MyConst

::MyModule::MyOtherConst

::MySecondModule::MyOtherConstAgain


and I can define constants like this:

::MyModule::MyOtherConst = "blah"

::MySecondModule::MyOtherConstAgain = "more blah"

But I can't assign like this:

::MyConst = "blah again"

The toplevel scope is thus somehow different, which is a bit annoying
because I have to treat it as a special case. As a principle I will not
state whether I was the least surprised by it either.

Thomas