On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Fri Oct 17 07:31:49 2014, aristotle wrote: >> What bugs me about `aliasing` just by itself is that it could be >> referring to so many things. > > I can’t think of what else it could be referring to in the context of Perl programming. For(each) loop variable ("implicit alias for each item"), glob assignment ("symbol table aliasing"), @_ ("aliases for the actual scalar parameters"). This I might describe as reference assignment, analogous to glob assignment. Hey, that's what you called it in the OP. :) ("aliasing via reference assignment", "aliasing via for(each) loops", "aliasing via glob assignment", "aliasing via @_" ...) EirikThread Previous | Thread Next