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In 5.8.1, $ perl -e'use constant { FOO = 1, BAR = 2}; print FOO,BAR' does not compile. With stringy commas, the combined form does work, 

$ perl -e'use constant { FOO => 1, BAR => 2}; print FOO,BAR'
12$

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'1' and '3' are not legal names for subs.

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Re: managing constants created with constant.pm
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 14, 2003 at 08:57 UTC
    You are right about the stringification (I missed that), but your post suggested the hashref as only argument was incorrect, and that you need a use constant for each constant used.

    Abigail

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