"John M. Dlugosz" wrote:
> Carl Mäsak cmasak-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| 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
"Carl Mäsak" wrote:
> > What is the point of marking things readonly if you can turn it off?
>
> There are many possible reasons, I think.
>
> * The code that declares the variable readonly might not be available
> to you (compiled to bytecode, fetched by RCP etc),
> * or it might be available b
"Carl Mäsak" wrote:
> ] Oh, but it gets even better: it turns out they didn't really have to
> ] sneak in through native code anyway, at least as far as the JVM is
> ] concerned, since the JVM treats final variables as always writable
> to ] the class they're defined in! There's no special case fo
