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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 -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next