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Mark, Andreas, Tom, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > > Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > > > > I found again Graham's posting with a tie() solution for scalars, > > arrays and hashes: > > > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules/1999-02/msg00090.html > > The Locked.pm module does something similar: > > http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/Locked/ Yes I did a tied implementation myself originally a few years back: Tie::Const at http://www.perlpress.com/perl/antiques.html but the problem with the tie approach is they make constants slower when constants should surely be faster! The solution Tom uses looks ideal, no tie slowdown, you can make something const at runtime which is a bonus. Only downside is it isn't in the std distrib or on CPAN... I'll try it (never done any XS before, the "make && make test && make install" incantation does all that for me) & let you know. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Mark Summerfield http://www.perlpress.comThread Previous | Thread Next