Death to use constant! I've never seen the appeal of use constant, and with modern Perls, it's completely unnecessary.

You can't easily interpolate 'constants' as they lack the sigil, and because of that, they also get auto-quoted on the left of a fat arrow, or if it's the only thing in a hash index. Furthermore, if you see: 

    my $variable = ALL_CAPS + 1;

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does that mean that $variable becomes one more than the constant ALL_CAPS, or does $variable get the result of ALL_CAPS(1)?

Luckely, there's Readonly.pm: 

    use Readonly;
    Readonly my $PI    => 4 * atan2(1, 1);
    Readonly my $DEBUG => 0;

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Much better, IMO.

In reply to Re: All uppercase subs by Anonymous Monk
in thread All uppercase subs by blazar

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