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My complaint is primarily about aliases, where I don't understand why Perl complains about when overwriting an alias to 1 but not one to [ 1,2,3,$x] (see examples in my OP especially the update)

Both are literal constructs unbound to any named variable.

I'm NOT saying that anonymous arrays -ie the content - should be immutable, but their reference.

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^6: Shouldn't references be readonly? by LanX
in thread Shouldn't LITERAL references be readonly? (updated) by LanX

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