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My take on this: "Literal references" don't exist in Perl, at least they don't appear in perldata. A literal reference would be something like ARRAY(0x557782f0a4c8), but you can't feed this to Perl.

The constructs {...} and [...] are anonymous, but not literals.

I fail to see a point in clobbering anonymous variables, but then I also fail to see why Perl should prevent it.

In reply to Re: Shouldn't references be readonly? by haj
in thread Shouldn't LITERAL references be readonly? (updated) by LanX

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