[perl #127531] permit \escape on right hand side of my

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This is pretty useful:

  perl -Mexperimental=refaliasing \
       -E 'my $x = [1,2,3]; \my @y = $x; say for @y'

...but the question I keep hearing is "why is the backslash on the my and not
the variable?"

The answer is not weird.  It's pre-existing syntax to get a reference to a new
variable.  It's still confusing, though, because people expect to be able to
write:

  my \@y = $x;

I even got this question from Larry.

We should allow that.  It would also be good to allow:

  my ($x, \@y, \%z) = @_;

...which means we should then allow:

  sub foo ($x, \@y, \%z) { ... }

I would use the *heck* out of that feature.

-- 
rjbs

• [perl #127531] permit \escape on right hand side of my by Ricardo SIGNES via RT
• [perl #127531] permit \escape on right hand side of my by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #127531] permit \escape on right hand side of my by Ricardo SIGNES