yeah, I understand your aspiration for 100% solutions.

But it's a Rosetta Stone fire-and-forget demo script and I doubt we'd see any other function added.

Or do you expect a need for sumerian_to_maya() soon? ;-)

> (BTW, I miss C++'s const keyword when coding in Perl).

why not ...

use Readonly;
Readonly my %has => (key => value, key => value, ...);

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If that's too ugly, we could try to define an attribute to do so.

my %has :ro = (key => value, key => value, ...);

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^10: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7 by LanX
in thread A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7 by rsFalse

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