i'd recommend &WISCONSIN, or if you're afraid of side effects (which won't occur with constants,)

Then I guess you've never noticed how "constants" are implemented by default when one uses h2xs. I've seen &CONST cause warnings in real code because of that.

But I don't use &CONST because I know it passes @_ to the CONST subroutine and I don't want whoever ends up maintaining my code wondering why I'm passing @_ in. Just because it (usually) works, doesn't mean it makes sense. (:

                - tye