Which is better, a chainsaw, an awl, or a rasp?

Which of these constructs is preferable?

# 1
print 2 + 2;

# 2
my $result = 2 + 2;
print $result;

# 3 
print 4;

# 4
use constant FOUR => (2 + 2);
print FOUR;

# 5
sub sum { $_[0] + $_[1] }
print sum(2, 2);
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With so little context, this is a meaningless question. What are you trying to accomplish? Answer that, and it's possible to evaluate these approaches.

(Code reuse is all well and good, but I'm not going to write an object oriented framework for a one-liner designed to strip out high bit characters.)

Update (Mon Oct 15 16:06:13 UTC 2001): Okay, this is unnecessarily short and terse. I apologize. Here are some questions I would ask before giving judgment:

• Is this a cut-down example of the type of thing that might be done?
• In what type of program does this run?
• How often might this message be displayed?
• Who is expected to see this message?
• Are there other, similar messages?
• Is this in a program or a module?

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