On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:04:12PM -0700, "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" wrote: > In article <20000523001623.A7317@pcard12x.ca.nortel.com>, > "Mark Mielke" <markm@nortelnetworks.com> wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:34:54PM -0600, "Tom Christiansen" wrote: > > > It's like passing a law against naughty thoughts. Or against > > > suicide. Neither has any beneficial effect whatsoever, because the > > > determined will always be there to circumvent your wishes. Only > > > education helps. > > You are mistaken. > > The law is already passed; what is being considered is enforcement at > > a level that be effective even against the incompetent. > I think I agree with Tom. I didn't feel I completely understood the > point of Mark Summerfield's message to which Tom was replying, but the > gist of it seemed to me to be that there should be some way of > ... I didn't disagree with Tom specifically. More I disagreed with one of his many mistaken analogies that are used to prove "points." Discussion should stay with logic and not get side tracked by things like this. > If someone wants a constant $pi of 3.1415926535897932 and then later > says *pi=\'gimme a slice', then that is what they want done. > Apologies if I misunderstood Mark S's point. All that being said, it is currently impossible to create a true constant in the SV slot of a glob (or in a lexical for that manner) without use of XS/C code. If this feature was added, why shouldn't a glob be able to be explicitly declared readonly as well? (after having set the slots up as desired) Everyone would then be satisfied. mark -- markm@nortelnetworks.com/mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | SIR Tools (7H12) |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | Nortel Networks | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/