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. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122947Thread Previous | Thread Next