Yours is a subtle question of typing. Possibly you are only talking about chomp because being a builtin the error is found at compile time; my_chomp won't be caught until runtime.

I agree with BigLug, it makes sense to complain for finding problems sooner. But this merely indicates that I accept the conventions surrounding const'ness. I don't want to change because the earliest finding of illogical actions in my code makes for easier coding in my view.

The view you consider, that const'ness be a protection given to a variable, seems less useful. If you wish to play with your idea further here is an imp (I think this is a bad idea as the resulting code seems misleading): 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

package protected;

# constant data that doesn't complain, just doesn't change.

# We could have a flag to allow a protected to store a value once;
# We could have a "new" subroutine to hide the tied'ness.
# Then usage would look like:
#     use protected;
#     my $ONE = protected->new;
#     $ONE = 'one';

sub TIESCALAR {
    my $class = shift;
    my $data  = shift;
    return bless { data => $data }, $class;
}

sub FETCH { return $_[0]->{data} }
sub STORE { return $_[0]->{data} }

package main;

my $THREE;

tie $THREE, 'protected', "three ";

$THREE = "four";

chomp $THREE;

print "\$THREE >$THREE<", $/;

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Be well,
rir

In reply to Re: Should chomping a constant always raise an error? by rir
in thread Should chomping a constant always raise an error? by BrowserUk

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