Hashes could do the trick: 
  my %enum = (Russ          => 1,
          Anonymous Monk => 2,
          vroom          => 3);

  $enum{Russ};          # value is 1
  $enum{Anonymous Monk}; # value is 2
  $enum{vroom};      # value is 3

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Update I suppose I should reverse my hash to make it work like enums are often used: 
  my %enum = (1 => 'Russ',
          2 => 'Anonymous Monk');
  # Imagining a switch statement (but not wanting to show
  # a perl-ified way to do that...)
  if ($enum{$AnotherVar} eq 'Russ'){
    doSomething();
  }

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I've forgotten most of my C mentality (as fast as I could) ;-)

Russ

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