Re: [FWP] Constants as array refs

[Greg Fast <gdf@imsa.edu>]

Said "Jeff Boes" <jboes@qtm.net>:
>>    foreach (@{ CARRAY() })
>> works, but i bet someone can come up with a better solution.
>
>The only other nominee is
>    foreach (@{ +CARRAY })
>
>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

  use constant CLIST => 1,2,3,4;

won't work?  That lets you:

  foreach (CLIST) { ... }

as well as

  $x = (CLIST)[2];

-- 
Greg Fast 
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