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Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@yahoo.com> writes:
>|> Well, there are tradeoffs to his proposal, and they should at least be
>|> mentioned.....
>
>Sorry for the self-followup, but one overridingly important issue I forgot
>to mention is that the semantics of marking an HV "readonly" can be quite
>different than the marking of its individual values.
>
>After
>
> my $ref = \$hash{SOMEKEY};
> somehow_mark_readonly %hash;
>
>it is clear that
> $hash{SOMEKEY} = 3;
>should not be allowed, but what about
> $$ref = 3;
>?
>
>I can imagine convincing arguments for semantics that do and don't
>allow updates via the reference.
I can't. If the hash in readonly/clamped then it does not matter how
you reach it it is readonly/clamped.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
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