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In the current implementation, scalar
constants are actually inlinable subroutines. As
...
subroutine call. See "Constant Functions" in
perlsub for details about how and when this
happens.

 
If the result after optimization and constant
folding is either a constant or a lexically-scoped
scalar which has no other references, then it will
be used in place of function calls