use constant FOO => 42; #### sub FOO { 42 } #### use POSIX (); #### $ perl -mPOSIX -e '$a = POSIX::O_RDWR; print "$a\n"' POSIX::O_RDWR $ perl -mPOSIX -e '$a = &POSIX::O_RDWR; print "$a\n"' 2 #### use POSIX qw(O_RDWR); #### $ perl -mPOSIX=O_RDWR -e '$a = O_RDWR; print "$a\n"' 2