I don't want to use the sigil simply because it disables the prototype and thus the constant-ish nature as mentions of the "constant" become regular runtime function calls (otherwise they'd be substituted at compile time). I might as well just use a variable.

Seeing as the unary plus doesn't work here, the next best thing I'd prefer would be (WISCONSIN) - with the parens following it looks quite awkward IMHO.

I like the unary plus in other situations and use it lots though - f.ex

map +(foo($_, "bar"))[3], @baz;

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where I would otherwise be forced to use curlies 
map { foo($_, "bar"))[3] } @baz;

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or another extra pair of parens. 
map((foo($_, "bar"))[3], @baz);

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I don't like either of the latter two, though I realise quite a few people here will disagree. I think the last one at least is certain not to win any prizes for beauty..

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^3: use constant for strings (unary plus) by Aristotle
in thread use constant for strings by shemp

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