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>My sad conclusion is this:
> const $READONLY = 99 ; # OR use readonly '$READONLY' => 99 ;
> *MYREADONLY = \'splat!' ;
> print $READONLY ; # Yep, prints "splat!" and no warnings
>Looks like you can't have genuinely readonly scalars in perl unless you
>use ties...
Why should this be an issue? Just because you can't diddle $foo doesn't
mean you can't diddle the *foo typeglob.
>Maybe we should have
> my $READONLY : readonly = 'Initialised' ;
>as Barrie Slaymaker suggested after all?
Coming soon from a Larry near you:
At some point, we'll enable the use of a C<constant> attribute
on variable declarations:
my $PI : constant = 4 * atan2(1,1);
This has all the advantages of being a variable rather than a
subroutine. It has all the disadvantages of not being implemented yet.
--tom