in reply to Re^5: Shouldn't references be readonly? (updated)
in thread Shouldn't LITERAL references be readonly? (updated)
@a = map { $_ = 3; } [];
is no more or less junk than
@a = map { $_ = 3; } $x.$y;
Are you therefore talking about [] + 1? Making the reference read-only is not going to catch that.
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