That would require anyone calling the sub to tie the constants--which makes no sense at all.

It just took me by surprise that chomp died when asked to inspect a variable that was readonly. The work-arounds are myriad:

  1. The XS version of Scalar::Util has a readonly function.
  2. I could also use the eval block technique to catch the death. (Which is how the pure Perl version of Scalar::Util::readonly() does it.)
  3. The Internals package has a IsWriteProtected() function.
  4. I could use Inline::C to use the svREADONLY macro.
  5. etc.

But, as chomp has to determine if there is anything to chomp, before attempting to modify it's argument, I just expected it to make that determination before checking for readonlyness. It doesn't do it that way, so I have to do extra tests or copies myself.

I've gotten spoiled by Perl's DWIMming things like negative offsets don't die, they work backwards from the end. Same with negative subscripts; ranges that produce no values; empty lists that act correctly regardless of the context etc.

On this occasion it didn't DWIM for me.

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Silence betokens consent.
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In reply to Re^2: Should chomping a constant always raise an error? by BrowserUk
in thread Should chomping a constant always raise an error? by BrowserUk

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