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Thanks for the Reply. Please clarify one more doubt. 1.) $c=99; Here $c is var which is holding 99 as value. We can change $c here ? 2.) $c=\99; Here also $c is reference which is pointing to 99. So why we can't change $c=1000? Thanks in advance

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Re^3: Modification of a read-only value attempted
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2012 at 13:48 UTC

    panku:

    You can change $c=1000. What you can't do is change 99 to 1000. When you use $c=1000, it tells perl that $c is no longer pointing to a reference to the constant 99, but is now containing the value 1000. When you use $$c=1000, you're telling perl to change the thing $c points to to 1000. But $c points to the constant value 99. Perl is telling you that it refuses to break the time-space continuum by making 99 be 1000.

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Re^3: Modification of a read-only value attempted
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 27, 2012 at 13:57 UTC
    So why we can't change $c=1000?

    As roboticus points out, you can make that change. That is, you can overwrite the value in $c -- currently the address of the constant 99 -- with any other value.

    What you cannot do is overwrite the value held at the address held in $c, because it is a constant.

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