RE: [FWP] Constants as array refs

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Mar 23, Jeff Boes said:

>Dunno which I like better... I've always been attracted to the idea of 'use
>constant', but the syntactical sugar is certainly lacking (IMO).

Is there a reason you need it to be an array reference?

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  use constant FOO => 1,2,3,4;

  print map $_ * 2, FOO;

  # or, for clarity:
  for (FOO) { print $_ * 2 }

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