Solutions:
  1. Learn to love the parens.
  2. Replace your constants with lexically scoped variables.
  3. Hack up a utility module that makes what you want easy to do.
Here is a sample implementation of the third option: 
package Import;

sub import {
  shift; # I don't care about my package.
  my $to_call = shift;
  my $call_from = caller;
  eval qq(
    package $call_from; # So the import goes into the right package.
    $to_call\->import(\@_);
  );
}

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Call that Import.pm. And then the following little test script shows it in operation: 
package Foo;

BEGIN {
  use base Exporter;
  @EXPORT = "HELLO";
  @EXPORT_OK = "BYE";
}

use constant HELLO => "Hello, world\n";
use constant BYE => "Goodbye, cruel world\n";



package Bar;
use Import "Foo";

print HELLO;

package Baz;
use Import qw(Foo BYE);

print BYE;

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OK, so you still have to put the definition of what you are willing to export into a BEGIN block. But that is one block, one place. If that bugs you, take a page from base and write a module that will set your @EXPORT and @EXPORT_OK for you in its import method.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Inheriting constants in the same file -- help me find a better way! by tilly
in thread Inheriting constants in the same file -- help me find a better way! by bikeNomad

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