Declaring constants is very convenient for writing programs, but as they're often inlined by Perl, retrieving their symbolic names can be tricky. This is made worse with lowlevel modules that use constants for bit-twiddling. Devel::Constants makes this much more manageable. It silently wraps around the constant module, intercepting all constant declarations. It builds a hash, associating the values to their names. The names can then be retrieved as necessary. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Devel-Constants -- Anton