in reply to Refactoring Perl #3 - Inline Temp

While Perl lacks the means to turn a once dynamic variable into a read-only (does anyone know of one?)

See Hash::Util::lock_hash() and Internals::SetReadOnly().

See also Re^2: OOP - Constant Vs. Subroutine for why you might prefer these methods to Readonly

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