in reply to Special literals taken literally

Good point - I was recently similarly burned by something like this: 

use constant FOO => 'my hash key';

my %hash = ('my hash key' => 42);

print "Wahoo!\n" if exists $hash{FOO};

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This will work as expected: 

print "Wahoo!\n" if exists $hash{+FOO};

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Larry

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