sub { "DUMMY" };
I was under the impression that constants are really subs that I could take the reference of
They are, and you can, but Data::Dumper seems to be having problems deparsing subroutines created by use constant back into source code. You have to set $Data::Dumper::Deparse to a true value to make Data::Dumper use B::Deparse, but even then the constant is nowhere to be seen, despite the subroutine itself works:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
local $Data::Dumper::Deparse = 1;
use constant INVALID_DATA => ( q{invalid}, 0 );
use constant ADD_DATA => ( q{add}, 1 );
use constant REMOVE_DATA => ( q{remove}, 2 );
use constant MODES => ( \&ADD_DATA, \&REMOVE_DATA );
print Dumper [ MODES ];
print Dumper [ (MODES)[0]() ];
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