by adding "()" after each's name
...which is exactly the reason why perl can optimize the sub away at compile time and makes them behave like use constant- note the two invocations
qwurx [shmem] ~ > perl -MO=Concise,-exec -e 'use constant foo=>"5"; $c +=4+foo;' 1 <0> enter 2 <;> nextstate(main 70 -e:1) v 3 <$> const[IV 9] s 4 <#> gvsv[*c] s 5 <2> sassign vKS/2 6 <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC -e syntax OK
qwurx [shmem] ~ > perl -MO=Concise,-exec -e 'sub foo(){"5"}; $c=4+foo; +' 1 <0> enter 2 <;> nextstate(main 2 -e:1) v 3 <$> const[IV 9] s 4 <#> gvsv[*c] s 5 <2> sassign vKS/2 6 <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC -e syntax OK

are identical (except for the code of constant.pm loaded in the first), while

qwurx [shmem] ~ > perl -MO=Concise,-exec -e 'sub foo{"5"}; $c=4+foo;' 1 <0> enter 2 <;> nextstate(main 2 -e:1) v 3 <$> const[IV 4] s 4 <0> pushmark s 5 <#> gv[*foo] s 6 <1> entersub[t3] sKS/TARG,1 7 <2> add[t4] sK/2 8 <#> gvsv[*c] s 9 <2> sassign vKS/2 a <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC -e syntax OK

leaves the sub as a sub since it doesn't have a null prototype list.

--shmem

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                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re^2: OOP - Constant Vs. Subroutine () by shmem
in thread OOP - Constant Vs. Subroutine by 2xlp

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