[Catalyst] best practice: where to put constants

[Tomas Doran]

Jarom Smith wrote:
> In the end, this is what I decided to do because I have relatively few 
> of these guys (so far) and I'd rather have them thrown together all in 
> one place than spread all over the system.  But I'm wondering if there 
> is a best practice?
> 
> I don't want to put them in the config hash or in a configuration file
> because these are not things that a user should be able to change or 
> override.

Not sure this is the 'best practice' way of doing what you're trying to 
achieve, but that aside - to answer your actual question:

I'd just put them all into their own package, and arrange for them to be 
exportable, something like this:

package MyApp::Constants;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter qw/import/;

use constant {
     THING_FOO => 0,
     THING_BAR => 1,
};

our @EXPORT = qw(
     &THING_FOO
     &THING_BAR
);

then just 'use MyApp::Constants;' where you need them, job done..

Cheers
t0m