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On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:47:15 -0400 Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > 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? I too am a little put off by the name of what is otherwise a great idea. I suspect the problem is the subtle distinction between "lvalues that are references", and "references that are lvalues". We've always had the former; now we have the latter as well. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANSThread Previous | Thread Next