Re^5: Shouldn't references be readonly?

in reply to Re^4: Shouldn't references be readonly?
in thread Shouldn't LITERAL references be readonly? (updated)

Which of the following do you regard as a literal array:

[]
[1,2,3]
[1,2,$x]
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I regard none of them as literal. [] {} are constructors; they are just syntactic sugar for a function which takes a list and returns a reference to an anonymous aggregate, e.g.

[1,2,3]
# is the same as
anon_array(1,2,3);
sub anon_array { my @a = @_; \@a }
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Dave.

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