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Re: [perl #122947] [EXPERIMENT] Lvalue references

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demerphq
Date:
October 16, 2014 07:31
Subject:
Re: [perl #122947] [EXPERIMENT] Lvalue references
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On 15 October 2014 02:38, Father Chrysostomos via RT <
perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:

> 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.)
>

Personally I think calling this aliasing is the right thing.

Yves

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