I do hope the points Anon raised are among "topics for meditation", since much of the talk is about constant folding at the compile time.

Absolutely, there is room for meditation and discussion, and I did name some of the limitations of Perl's readonly variables. You also raise some very good points!

Anyhow, there's little to fault in his overall assessment.

I disagree, as I hope I made clear in my post. In particular, 'it really doesn't have the notion of a "compile-time constant,"' and 'You might well not actually know ... the behavior of the language-constructs that you are looking at' make it seem that the post is unfortunately based on misinformation or a misunderstanding - not a good basis for discussion.

In reply to Re^4: Using constants as hash keys by haukex
in thread Using constants as hash keys by choroba

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