I think it would be hard to make it a syntax error, as that would mean the parser would have to detect a problem when parsing the INIT token in use constant INIT => 4. The latter, though, is just a regular fat-comma-quoted string which is passed as argument to constant.pm's import function.

OTOH, constant.pm could in theory be made to croak instead of just issuing a warning, as it currently does 

    # Maybe the name is tolerable
    } elsif ($name =~ $tolerable) {
        # Then we'll warn only if you've asked for warnings
        if (warnings::enabled()) {
        if ($keywords{$name}) {
            warnings::warn("Constant name '$name' is a Perl keyword");

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But maybe whoever wrote that code had some curious usage of such keyword/subroutine redefinition in mind, in which case a fatal error might be inappropriate here? After all, you can make warnings fatal yourself, as already mentioned above.

In reply to Re: Conflict with INIT block is not an error? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Conflict with INIT block is not an error? by andal

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