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* Father Chrysostomos <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2014-10-11T02:53:37] > The lvalue references feature, which is almost ready to be merged into blead, > gives Perl 5.22.0 experimental support for aliasing via reference assignment: This sort of seemed to come out of nowhere from my perspective. Or, rather, I knew you'd been working on, and had asked one or two questions about it, but then it got merged. I was a bit taken aback. I generally look at branches hitting the commit list only lightly, on the assumption that big user-facing changes will land only after discussion. In saying, "Could we, next time, first have a public announcement that it's ready to merge and a review period?" I realize that the review period will probably garner much less review than you'd like, but I think it would be useful to do, at the cost of only a few days delay, probably. I will now begin kicking this around, anyway, and hope to find it purely awesome. Since I haven't much played with it yet, I don't have much to say, except this: I think "lvalue reference" might need to be renamed. My understanding is that it's always about the backslash on the left hand side, rather than having a reference in an lvalue. Also, we have LVALUE refs. Is this feature actually related to that? -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next