But then it's not parsed as a constant, i.e. it isn't inlined:

$ perl -MO=Deparse -e 'use constant c => 42; print c; print &c;'
sub c () { 42 }
use constant ('c', 42);
print 42;
print &c;
-e syntax OK
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($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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