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My recommendation to him was to use variables for his constants. (Yes, I know that sentence sounds bizarre.) Variables certainly behave differently in different contexts, but people are not as likely to make mistakes with them because they know they've got a variable rather than some mysterious constant thing.
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Re: Behavior of compile-time constants?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 14, 2002 at 18:29 UTC
    Let's go crazy and use the worst of both worlds: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings 'all';


use variable i     => 0;
use variable array => [];

array = [2, 4, 5, 8];

for (i = 0; i < 4; i ++) {
    print array -> [i], "\n";
}

__END__
2
4
5
8

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