Sounds like you need to look into OOP - check out perltoot and look in Tutorials here.

Now, is OOP going to solve all of your problems? No. Check out Big Ball of Mud. OOP is just the tool, the results depend upon the coder wielding it.

Second question - yes, it will remain a 'constant' and you will get a run time error if you try and change it. And i didn't know why until wog said it. ;)

To elaborate more, this is a way i would do it: 

package Foo;

use constant BAR => 27;

sub bar { return BAR };

1;

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Providing accessor methods tends to keep folks from trying to change the guts, but not always.

jeffa 

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: Coding Perl With Style by jeffa
in thread Coding Perl With Style by Dogma

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