>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> At 10:58 AM 8/11/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> Someone on this list (TomC?) has supplied a major diatribe against const.
DS> Maybe, but I don't see what's wrong with:
DS> my $foo :const = 12;
DS> A nice, named, lexically scoped constant. The optimizer should be able to
DS> make reasonably good use of that.
Err, I was addressing the issue of having
const this
this const
sub foo ($name :const)
etc.
A nice way of making a value read-only is lovely. And let it be a
runtime error to modify it.
The caller can easily do a &foo eval{$const_item} to remove the
read-only attribute.
Hmm, perhaps we should rename the attribute
:read-only
<chaim>
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