Don't use the constant pragma
what? personally, i dislike use constant, so i don't use it. but there is no reason not to use it in this case. as Abagail-II stated above, fix the context and the problem is gone.

here's an example (my formatting)

use constant ROTATE => 1; 
use constant HOLD => 2; 
use constant FLASH => 3; 
use constant NUM_MODES => 3;
# etc.

my %modestring = (
  +ROTATE => "a",
  +HOLD => "b",
  +FLASH => "c",
  # etc...
);

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since i mentioned my dislike of the constant module (pragma?), i'll describe my solution:

sub ROTATE () { 1 }
# etc.

my %modestring = (
  +ROTATE => a,
  # etc.
);

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~Particle *accelerates*

In reply to Re: Re: Behavior of compile-time constants? by particle
in thread Behavior of compile-time constants? by laughingboy

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