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Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
:=head2 :ro
[...]
:then within the lexical scope of $x (from the point it's been introduced
:onwards), any lvalue-context usage of that variable is a compile-time
:error. Note that as well as forbidding all the obvious stuff like $x++,
:all the following would also be compile-time errors:
:
: foo($x);
: for ($x, ...) { ...}
: $y = \$x;
: sub foo: lvalue { ....; return $x }
I can imagine that being inconvenient. Is there an easy way to get an
unmodified temp copy of the value (for uses such as foo($x) or for (...))
without needing another variable? Modified temp copies are easy to get
with eg "$x" or 0+$x, but I don't offhand know of an easy way to get an
unmodified copy.
If we can make it convenient enough, I can see a lot of value in using
this to write more obviously functional code.
Hugo