Is there a simple way to test if a Moose attribute is read-only?

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Published on 2010-04-01T18:41:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 18:43 UTC
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I currently use a block eval to test that I've set an attribute as read-only. Is there a simpler way to do this?

Example from working code:

#Test that sample_for is ready only
eval { $snp_obj->sample_for('t/sample_manifest2.txt');};
like($@, qr/read-only/xms, "'sample_for' is read-only");

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