Instead of non-working '+' or offending '()', you could use '&'

That's evil, I love you ;-)

Note that this has an interesting side effect that you'll never be able to observe:

use constant foo => 'bar';

sub crack {
    print &foo, $/;
}

crack(1, 2, 3);
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constant creates a sub foo () { 'bar' }, that is a constant sub with empty prototype.

Using the & in front bypasses the prototype check, and it passes all arguments of sub crack to sub foo.

Now since foo is constant sub, you have no way of observing the difference - except for speed:

use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);

cmpthese(-1, {
    'ampersand' => 'use constant foo => 2; my $x = 0; for (1..10000) {
+ $x += &foo } ',
    'no_amp'    => 'use constant foo => 2; my $x = 0; for (1..10000) {
+ $x += foo } ',
});
__END__
           Rate ampersand    no_amp
ampersand 570/s        --      -39%
no_amp    939/s       65%        --
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You can see that number of passed arguments makes a difference with this small benchmark:

cmpthese(-1, {
    'ampersand' => '
            use constant foo => 2; 
            sub a { my $x = 0; for (1..10000) { $x += &foo } }
            a(%ENV, %ENV, %ENV)
        ',
    'no_amp' => '
            use constant foo => 2; 
            sub a { my $x = 0; for (1..10000) { $x += foo } }
            a(%ENV, %ENV, %ENV)
        ',
});
__END__
           Rate ampersand    no_amp
ampersand 330/s        --      -61%
no_amp    849/s      157%        --
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Passing a relatively large array to the sub increase the run time difference.

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