On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 05:09:31PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote: > Pm (>): > > In Rakudo's case, we just haven't implemented read-only traits > > on variables yet. > > Goodie. I guessed as much. > > > But yes, I expect that it will be caught as > > a compile-time error. > > And do you agree it's reasonable to expect this of every compiler?
Reasonable to expect it, yes -- but whether or not this rises to the level of being a "requirement in the spec" may be a different matter. I could envision the possibility that some otherwise-very-capable Perl 6 implementation might be better served by having such checks performed at runtime (they have to be done there also) and leaving compile-time checking as an optimization. I suspect this is what Pugs did. Or an implementation might not have a clear-cut notion of "compile time". So, as long as the assignment is properly prevented, I think that may be sufficient. (If the language designers decide otherwise, that's okay with me too. :-) Pm
