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David L. Nicol wrote:
> Assignment to a nonexistent reference becomes an
> alias instead of a copy.
Uh, I dunno. Like Python/Ruby, but without the consistency.
I think special constructs -- defined as NOT doing assignment
-- should be allowed to set up aliases. This includes, e.g. for().
Perhaps a simple
alias( %foo, %bar );
for those times when you really just need a simple WTDI!
Multiple aliases in one swoop:
alias
%foo => %bar,
@p => @Some::Other::Long::Class::Name::ISA,
$x => $db{tbl}{col}[r],
$y => substr( $s, 10, 15 ),
@z => @a[5..8,13];
etc.
--
John Porter
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