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use constant NAME => "Toby Inkster";
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Constants created with the constant pragma don't result in function calls. They're optimized away by the compiler. (This includes constants interpolated in strings like ${\FOO}.) The only ways to force Perl not to optimize a constant away are to call it with a leading ampersand, or to call it as a method.