in reply to Re^2: Is there a way to lock arrays?
in thread Is there a way to lock arrays?

Sorry. I should have demonstrated that also. 

use Internals qw[SetReadOnly];;
@a = 1 .. 3;;
SetReadOnly \@a;;
print @a;;
1 2 3

$a[ 2] = 'changed';;
print @a;;
1 2 changed

push @a, 'added';;
Modification of a read-only value attempted at

SetReadOnly \$a[1];;
 $a[1] = 'changed';;
Modification of a read-only value attempted at

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