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  Sat Aug 06 16:37:23 2016 MAUKE [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: add interface to SvREADONLY and SvREFCNT
As described in <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238712.html>, it would be nice if Scalar::Util had functions for getting the refcount of a variable and making a variable read-only. There's already a 'readonly' function for getting the RO status, so 'set_readonly($var)' seems like a natural extension. The other one could be done as 'refcount($var)'.
  Sat Aug 06 18:49:01 2016 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added
On Sat Aug 06 16:37:23 2016, MAUKE wrote: Show quoted text
> As described in > <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/08/msg238712.html>, > it would be nice if Scalar::Util had functions for getting the > refcount of a variable and making a variable read-only. > > There's already a 'readonly' function for getting the RO status, so > 'set_readonly($var)' seems like a natural extension. The other one > could be done as 'refcount($var)'.
Yeah, those sound like good additions. Currently Devel::Refcount provides an SvREFCNT wrapper; but maybe Scalar::Util would be a better place for it. -- Paul Evans
  Sat Aug 06 18:49:02 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'