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Re: can this be turned into a compile-time error?

by Thilosophy (Curate)
on Mar 11, 2005 at 03:56 UTC ( [id://438525]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Should chomping a constant always raise an error?
in thread Should chomping a constant always raise an error?

sub modify { chomp( $_[0] ); # whatever else happens, you've just potentially modified $_[0] } modify('fred'); # What would you expect to happen to 'fred'?
Great example. For those who did not try it out, it causes a runtime exception:
Modification of a read-only value attempted at /tmp/t.pl line 2.
Can modify somehow be declared to only take a modifiable parameter, so that we can have a compile-time error (as happens with the core chomp)?
Can't modify constant item in modify at -e line 1, at end of line Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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Re^2: can this be turned into a compile-time error?
by QM (Parson) on Mar 11, 2005 at 18:54 UTC
    Can modify somehow be declared to only take a modifiable parameter, so that we can have a compile-time error (as happens with the core chomp)?
    Playing Devil's Advocate, will this work?
    chomp(foo(",",@list))
    Don't know? How about this?
    chomp(join(",",@list))
    It seems, off the top of my naive head, that the argument to chomp would have to be an l-value to be guaranteed to be modifiable.

    Is that what you want?

    -QM
    --
    Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

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