John Porter wrote:
Perhaps a simple
alias( %foo, %bar );
for those times when you really just need a simple WTDI!
Would
alias %foo = %bar;
not be ok, 'alias' acting and binding like 'my' of course. Or
my %foo is alias = %bar;
No?
/davíð
Sent: 7/20/01 2:25 PM
Subject: Sv: aliasing a value in a while each loop
John Porter wrote:
Perhaps a simple
alias( %foo, %bar );
for those times when you really just need a simple WTDI!
Would
alias %foo = %bar;
not be ok, 'alias' acting and binding like 'my' of course. Or
my
:38 PM
Subject: aliasing a value in a while each loop
Mark J. Reed wrote:
Well, other than the fact that the while(each) doesn't do aliasing.
Since that would be the whole point, ignore that last message.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:21:57PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001
David L. Nicol wrote:
Assignment to a nonexistent reference becomes an
alias instead of a copy.
Uh, I dunno. Like Python/Ruby, but without the consistency.
I think special constructs -- defined as NOT doing assignment
-- should be allowed to set up aliases. This includes, e.g. for().
David L. Nicol wrote:
Are there really situations where
$$reference = An Expression;
is clearer than
$reference = \(An Expression);
?
Eric is confused. I don't know about in Perl 6-to-be, but in Perl 5
those two mean totally different things:
$foo = \$bar; # sets
