Bug #85061 for constant-tiny: Module should explain why it's better than plain declaration

Matt S Trout wrote via RT: Show quoted text
Hmm, is it more clear if I say that adding "use constant::tiny" before any other "use constant" statement forbids Unicode names, and therefore gives a kind of warranty on the memory footprint of the process? Sure, you can manually write the sub for each constant, but that's a bit tedious if you have many of them. constant::tiny is just a small hack to keep using the normal way to write constants in Perl "use constant …" and have a stricter control on names and memory. As I partially said in the doc, the code for the module was written as a proof of concept after a mail from Olivier Mengué on p5p, complaining about the then increased memory footprint of constant.pm. His use case was Perl code embedded in a device with small amount of memory I think. In my current job, I have code executed in Asterisk as AGI, so memory footprint, though not vital, still is nice to keep low. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.