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Re^4: Shouldn't references be readonly?by LanX (Saint) |
on Aug 05, 2020 at 13:40 UTC ( [id://11120318]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Im asking about logic and you are arguing with implementation. I haven't seen a logical reason why Perl shouldn't throw an error if the alias to a ref is overwritten. My suspicion is that the ugly truth is that the readonly flag is (mis)used for indicating if the referenced data structure is "constant" not the reference itself.
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