Re: 4.0.1: menucomplete quirk leaving extra characters behind

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> On Jun 13,  5:58pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } Should we make readonly special variables unreadwriteable?
> 
> That would probably be a very good idea.  I think it falls under the existing
> "can't change type of a special parameter" rule.

That makes it easy.  I'm in two minds about one thing, though:  should it
still be possible to turn on the readonly flag for a special?  The problem
is that once on, you can't turn it off.  That may be still be useful,
though.  Or we can introduce a flag PM_SPECIALREADONLY which has the same
effect as PM_READONLY but can't be reset (and we complain if the user tries
to change PM_READONLY if that's set).

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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