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On Fri Oct 17 10:17:19 2014, Eirik-Berg.Hanssen@allverden.no wrote:
> 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").
Yes, what distinguishes this is the *means* of aliasing, though it is all ultimately the same thing underneath.
> 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 @_" ...)
So how about refaliasing? (I.e., aliasing via reference.)
Ricardo Signes wrote:
> I'd then go with assign_alias or something formed from those two parts.
But for \@x ( @array_of_arrays ) has no assignment in it.
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Father Chrysostomos
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