NAME

Template::Namespace::Constants - Compile time constant folding

SYNOPSIS 

    # easy way to define constants
    use Template;

    my $tt = Template->new({
	CONSTANTS => {
	    pi => 3.14,
	    e  => 2.718,
	},
    });

    # nitty-gritty, hands-dirty way
    use Template::Namespace::Constants;

    my $tt = Template->new({
	NAMESPACE => {
	    constants => Template::Namespace::Constants->new({
		pi => 3.14,
	        e  => 2.718,
            },
	},
    });

DESCRIPTION

The Template::Namespace::Constants module implements a namespace handler which is plugged into the Template::Directive compiler module. This then performs compile time constant folding of variables in a particular namespace.

PUBLIC METHODS

new(\%constants)

The new() constructor method creates and returns a reference to a new Template::Namespace::Constants object. This creates an internal stash to store the constant variable definitions passed as arguments. 

    my $handler = Template::Namespace::Constants->new({
	pi => 3.14,
	e  => 2.718,
    });

ident(\@ident)

Method called to resolve a variable identifier into a compiled form. In this case, the method fetches the corresponding constant value from its internal stash and returns it.

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>

http://wardley.org/

VERSION

1.27, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.19, released on 27 April 2007.

COPYRIGHT 

  Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Template::Directive