In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, brian d foy wrote:
>> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
>>
>> modid: Readonly
>
>> similar:
>> constant
>
>i don't have a problem with this name, but should it be a pragma
>instead of a "normal" module?
I don't think so, because pragmas generally control the compilation
environment rather than the runtime environment, and one of the
features of Readonly is that you can make a variable read-only with a
value computed at runtime. Pragmas also generally have a blanket
effect on the program ("use constant" is an exception), and don't
introduce functions as Readonly does.
I'm not closed to the idea; it just doesn't seem to me that a pragma
is a good fit for this. I do plan to experiment with attributes,
something like "my $foo : Readonly ('somevalue');", but at this point
I don't have any idea whether that'll work well or not.
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Eric J. Roode [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Software Engineer, Myxa Corporation
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