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in reply to On quoting the lhs of '=>'

My way of preventing the fat arrow's quoting is
use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use constant { BIRD => 'footchicken' }; print Dumper(+{ (BIRD) => 'Valery' }); # $VAR1 = { # 'footchicken' => 'Valery' # };