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On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 at 16:50, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > Like I said, it turns out that reasonable people can disagree on what a > constant hash should be. :-) I really wish we didnt have restricted hashes > getting in the way, simple "readonly" hashes would be much more useful than > restricted hashes are. > > MMMM, I wonder if there is a way we can extend restricted hashes so they > behave as people would expect a readonly/constant hash to behave without > throwing out restricted hashes entirely. Maybe something like > lock_hash(\%hash, undef); ? Eg, the undef would signal "allow any key". > Hrmmmm...... Watch this space, maybe I can come up with a hack for this. > Turns out the important part of this is easy to do. I have a POC working on my local build, I will push a patch in the next day or two. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next