[my apologies, forgot to send to list]

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From: Diab Jerius <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Pdl-general] Read only piddles?
To: Craig DeForest <[email protected]>


On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Craig DeForest
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I don’t think that there is at the moment.
>
> It might be possible to mark a PDL read-only to prevent modification of its 
> contents, but modification as you describe involves a Perl-level change to 
> the variable:  putting a new value in the variable is not something that PDL 
> controls.

That's what I feared.  I would like to prevent an inadvertent

  $pdl *= 3;

I started out with a PDL subclass and overriding as many core methods
and operator overloads that I could think of, but that's a chase with
no end.

>
> You could make a Perl copy of the PDL and hand *that* off:
>
>         $tmp = $my_pdl;
>         untrusted($tmp);
>

Unfortunately, the piddles may be large and the calls may be many.
I'm trying to avoid too much memory thrashing.


>
>> On Oct 7, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Diab Jerius <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I've got an application where I need to maintain a functional
>> relationship between several piddles, but need to hand them over to
>> untrusted code which will destroy that relationship if the piddles are
>> modified.
>>
>> Is there any means of marking a piddle as read only?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Diab
>>
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