Thanks to kelan, perrin, sauoq, WBT, larsen, dpuu, and nite_man for the replies. You all were correct in assuming that I didn't want to use 
  use constant PIE => "Warm Apple";

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I find 
print "The value of PIE is ${ \PIE }.\n";

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or even 
 print "pie: ", PIE, "\n";

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not pleasing to read or write. The former is truly ugly, and the later looks a bit like a filehandle.

Also, I have an existing code base with lots of scalar variables that are actually constants, so dpuu's solution is easiest to implement for me.

Cheers

--Fred

Nothing is too wonderful to be true
-- Michael Faraday

In reply to Re: Re: How to create a "CONSTANT" by freddo411
in thread How to create a "CONSTANT" by freddo411

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