Exporting Constants in Perl

[Devin Whalen]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:40 -0400, Andrew Hammond wrote:
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> > I just tried it with "our" instead of "use subs" and it works...but why?
> > 
> > use subs @EXPORT_OK;
> > becomes
> > our @EXPORT_OK;
> > 
> > I assume the problem is that use subs only expects subs to be exported.
> > So should I always use our?  Does use subs offer any benefits over our?
> > Now my file works, but I just want to know what is the correct syntax
> > and why. 
> 
> Chapter 4 of the camel book will enlighten you.
> 

Well, not in my Programming Perl book.  However, I did find a copy of
the Third Edition on the web, and chapter 4 does have the info you are
talking about...guess I will have to get a new copy.  I now know that
the use subs @EXPORT_OK and our @EXPORT_OK; are completely unnecessary
for my purposes.  The problem was, I was updating a perl module that was
5 or 6 years old that someone else created.  Anyway, problem solved and
I learned a little more about Perl.  Thanks for the pointer.

Later


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