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I think the A() has at least has the advantage of being 100% clear to whoever reads the code (no one will think this might still be a bareword).
A , "Value" won't match the style of other key/pair values (or the standard notation), and ,=> looks enough like a typo (or even syntax error if you're not familiar with perl) that someone will be tempted to correct it. I agree that (A) is a beautiful solution :)

There are of course many silly alternatives, like %hash = reverse ("Value" => A, "Value" => B);, or using $::{A}->$*, but the only other correct solution I can think of is prepending the package name.

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump qw( pp ); use constant A => "One"; use constant B => "Two"; package Consts { use constant C => "Three"; } pp { main::A => 1, ::B => 2, Consts::C => 3, }; __DATA__ { One => 1, Three => 3, Two => 2 }
And having your constants in a specific namespace may be a good idea in the first place.


In reply to Re: Using constants as hash keys by Eily
in thread Using constants as hash keys by choroba

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