This means that they break (silently) if you try to use them as hash keys, in double-quoted strings, or any other place where barewords are not interpreted as sub calls.

Hmm. *grin* I can't recall being bitten by those things. I've used constants for array indexes on occasion, but never hash indexes. But its good to keep in mind. Thanks.

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