It's only a warning. You can suppress it with no warnings 

{
  no warnings;
  use constant TEST => 2;
}

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Update: Dang. That no warnings bit was all wrong, as noted by K_M_McMahon++. The worst of it is that I had even run the test 

% perl -Mstrict -wle 'use constant x => 1; { no warnings; use constant
+ x => 4; } print x'
Constant subroutine main::x redefined at /opt/lib/perl5/5.8.3/constant
+.pm line 108.
4

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but only paid attention to the fact that the last print out was correct, and completely ignored the fact that I was still getting a warning. Sheesh.

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In reply to Re: Constant redefined by tlm
in thread Constant redefined by paulski

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