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On 7/10/2011 5:15 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> If you make them read-only it defeats the purpose of having an alias.
Um. I think you're assuming a conclusion there, specifically, that you
know the only purposes an alias can have. Obviously I have a purpose in
mind that read-only-ness does not defeat.
> If you want something more efficient than copying, we have copy-on-write for strings. Can we make perl use that more often?
I don't know how much COW is used now, or how it works. COW might offer
a bigger speedup than views, depending. Research required.
> And isn’t copying an RV or a number just as fast as making a view?
Yes for RVs and non-stringified integers, pretty close for the other
numbers.
> I can’t speak for Perl 6, but making something read-only in Perl 5 just feels un-Perl-5-ish.
Perl 5 has to evolve, and Perl 5 has always had some read-only things.
Or are you suggesting that ${\3.14159} should be mutable? :)
PS: With views being available it's not like all parameters would be
readonly in practice; that would just be one of the options, hopefully
the default one.
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