The whole discussion about "literals" is unfortunately only distracting

uh, I didn't bring up literals at all. It's an ambiguous word which may or may not include [4,5,6] depending on who you ask. It's useless to talk about literals.

You asked why it wasn't like "TEST", 42 and undef, and I told you why.

If you want to ask a different question now, fine.

map { ++$_ } [1,2,3] should throw an error

After all the fuss you made about inconsistency when you thought it wasn't consistent, you now want to make it inconsistent?

No, assigning a number to a scalar that previously contained a reference is odd, but it shouldn't be an error.

In reply to Re^3: Shouldn't references be readonly? (updated) by ikegami
in thread Shouldn't LITERAL references be readonly? (updated) by LanX

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