Readonly-BeginLift use Readonly::BeginLift; Readonly my $VAR => 'foo'; BEGIN { print $VAR } __END__ foo INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Readonly::BeginLift You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Readonly-BeginLift AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Readonly-BeginLift CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Readonly-BeginLift Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Readonly-BeginLift/ COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2010 Curtis "Ovid" Poe This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.