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    title="SYNOPSIS"
-%]<pre>    # easy way to define constants
    use Template;</pre>
<pre>    my $tt = Template-&gt;new({
	CONSTANTS =&gt; {
	    pi =&gt; 3.14,
	    e  =&gt; 2.718,
	},
    });</pre>
<pre>    # nitty-gritty, hands-dirty way
    use Template::Namespace::Constants;</pre>
<pre>    my $tt = Template-&gt;new({
	NAMESPACE =&gt; {
	    constants =&gt; Template::Namespace::Constants-&gt;new({
		pi =&gt; 3.14,
	        e  =&gt; 2.718,
            },
	},
    });</pre>
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[% WRAPPER section
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-%]<p>
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.
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    title="PUBLIC METHODS"
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   title = "new(\\%constants)"
-%]<p>
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.
</p>
<pre>    my $handler = Template::Namespace::Constants-&gt;new({
	pi =&gt; 3.14,
	e  =&gt; 2.718,
    });</pre>
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-%]<p>
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.
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-%]<p>
Andy Wardley &lt;abw@andywardley.com&gt;
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-%]<p>
1.23, distributed as part of the
Template Toolkit version 2.14, released on 04 October 2004.
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[% WRAPPER section
    title="COPYRIGHT"
-%]<pre>  Copyright (C) 1996-2004 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.
  Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.</pre>
<p>
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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