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On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 8:59â¯PM Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 2:50â¯PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans < > leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > >> To me what people are looking for is read only structures. Thus 1. we >> need an actual read only mechanism for hashes (restricted hashes are too >> restrictive for this purpose), and 2. in your example the declaration would >> cause @nums to also become read only. >> > Causing @nums to be read-only sounds like a good idea, actually. Immutable data is often a huge win. The downside is when someone tries to mutate @nums. We'd want a mechanism to tell the developer how and where the variable became read-only. That introduces its own set of problems, particularly if it's happened multiple times. -- Curtis "Ovid" Poe -- CTO, All Around the World World-class software development and consulting https://allaroundtheworld.fr/Thread Previous | Thread Next