What, with one thing and another, I found myself abusing constant.pm today - I am in need of mneumonic return codes and this struck me as the most likely way to proceed. I wonder, though, what kind of performance penalty the Constant Functions ( cf ) would be imposing.

Is there a Monk present who could provide me enlightenment on this topic? If constant.pm is considering odious, is there another way of accomplishing the same end? I really need the mneumonic codes, but I am open to alternate ideas.

Mik
mikfire

PS - Yes, I have already thought of using a hash to hold the return codes and returning the correct codes from there, eg, return $ERROR_CODE{NO_ERROR}; I just liked the way it read with constants better, eg, return NO_ERROR;

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