Thus it was written in the epistle of Eben Yong,
> I apologize for kicking the dead llama but I think you're right.  This is
> exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks!

Since everyone is happy, I won't mention constant subroutines which allow you
to do something like this:

sub PERDAY () { 24*60*60 } # Note the ()
print "$elapsed seconds is approximately ",$elapsed/PERDAY," days.\n";

At compile time, that second line becomes

print "$elapsed seconds is approximately ", $elapsed / 86400, " days.\n";

(just ask B::Deparse, I did :-).

Ted
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