Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:14 AM 5/4/2001 -0700, Doug MacEachern wrote:
>On Fri, 4 May 2001, Artur Bergman wrote:
> > Can't they be stringified or upgraded in anyway?
>
>'can', sure.  'should', no.  i'll say it again:
>data that might be modified at runtime should never have been
>marked as shared in the first place.

Which means the first time someone prints out a shared integer constant 
things will get odd.

Perl modifies data at runtime in places people don't usually expect, or 
even realize. Seems prudent to take that into account...

                                        Dan

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