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[perl #122947] [EXPERIMENT] Lvalue references

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Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
October 15, 2014 00:38
Subject:
[perl #122947] [EXPERIMENT] Lvalue references
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On Tue Oct 14 12:01:32 2014, 2bfjdsla52kztwejndzdstsxl9athp@gmail.com wrote:
> Quoth Paul LeoNerd Evans:
> > 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.
> 
> Agreed.  How about "lreferences" or "lrefs"?

I’ve been calling them lvrefs internally, if that matters.

(C.f. the new lvref magic type, the lvref op, lvref.t.)

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Father Chrysostomos


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