in reply to Re^2: Readonly oddity
in thread Readonly oddity

> I personally don't like constant because it is not suitable for any complex structures

For example?

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Re^4: Readonly oddity
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jan 27, 2016 at 06:11 UTC

    The documentation for constant explains this.

    "For example?"

    The NOTES section of that documentation has an example.

    — Ken

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      You mean the array reference example? It only says that you can change the values, not that it's "not suitable." It's quite suitable, I use it all the time.
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        use 5.014;
use strict;
use warnings;

use constant FOO => [ qw(BAR BAZ) ];
push @{FOO()}, qw(BOO HAHA);
say join " ", @{FOO()};
@{FOO()} = split / /, "what are you using such constants for?";
say join " ", @{FOO()};

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        Oh, yeah, also I don't like that you have to add () to those constants in some cases.
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