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On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 04:58:39PM +0000, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> I'm a fan of using constants in code, and often using interpolatable
> constants with something like Readonly or Const::Fast for deep constants:
Unless I missed it, there doesn't seem to have been any discussion on
compile time v run time behaviour.
For example in current perl, in this:
use constant one => 1;
my $x = one + 2;
the addition gets constant folded at compile time, so it's the same as if
the code was written
my $x = 3;
What happens for a hypothetical constant lexical var? E.g.:
my $one :constant = 1;
my $x = $one + 2;
Does the addition get constant folded? If so, what about:
my $i = 1;
my $one :constant = $i;
my $x = $one + 2;
Is this a compile-time error, or does $one act a bit like a state variable
and gets assigned to only once, or is $one just a normal my variable -
except that its a runtime (or maybe compile-time?) error to modify in the
same scope after the initial assign?`
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