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Re^13: ref to read-only alias ... why? (notabug)by ikegami (Patriarch) |
on Jan 06, 2012 at 22:16 UTC ( [id://946677]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
You seem to be operating from the point of view that "It's self-evident that literals should create non-modifiable values." Yet that's currently not the case in 50% of the examples I posted. «1» in «for (1)» could return a non-modifiable value, but it intentionally returns a modifiable value (in a sense) some of the times. «1..3» in «for (1..3)» could return non-modifiable values, but it returns modifiable values, and it's intentionally not getting changed because people want literals to return modifiable values. It's not self-evident that literals should create non-modifiable values.
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