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* Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2014-10-14T09:45:31] > On Tue Oct 14 05:47:48 2014, 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. > > ‘Assigning to references’ is the least ambiguous way to refer to it that I > can think. How do we abbreviate that into a feature name? If we call it > refassign, it’s ambiguous again, because reference assignment would be > assignment of references. From the user's perspective, is there actually a reference involved in the left hand side? The assignment forces \$left to refer to the same thing as \$right, but it doesn't in anyway [that I conceive of the phrase] assign to a reference. Why not just "aliasing"? The use of \ makes sense, and can (I think) be taught easily, but I think that actually calling it a lvalue reference or an assignment to a reference begins to confuse things that are distinct. -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next