If I uncomment this line it won't compile because it claims MY_CONSTANT3 is a bareword and not a constant.

Correct. At compile time, there is no function named MY_CONSTANT3, so MY_CONSTANT3 is treated as a string literal. This is obviously not what you want, so strict lets you know.

You need to execute require "constants.pl"; before my $var = MY_CONSTANT3; is compiled.

Since using require to load something that doesn't have a package makes no sense, I'll fix that at the same time. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

BEGIN {
   do "constants.pl";
   die $@ if $@;
}

my $var = MY_CONSTANT3;
print "$var\n";

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By the way, I removed the exit 1; since there's no reason to signal an error occured.

In reply to Re: Using constants... by ikegami
in thread Using constants... by willjones

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