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From: Adam Kennedy <cpan <at> ali.as>
Subject: Re: Declarations of constants
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.language
Date: 2005-05-31 08:37:11 GMT (3 years, 14 weeks, 1 day, 21 hours and 14 minutes ago)
Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   # Way 1
>   my $MEANING_OF_LIFE is constant = 42;

Forgive my ignorance here, but for all of these different ways of doing 
constants, will they all optimize (including partial 
evaluation/currying) at compile/build/init/run-time?

my $gravity is constant = 10; # One significant figure

sub time_to_ground ($height, $accel) {
	...acceleration math...
}

my $time = time_to_ground( 500, $gravity );

... thus simplifying internally to

my $time = 1234;

Adam K