On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:44:22AM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > New features are possible. I'd quite like to be able to bind in Perl 5. > > Wasn't there a proposal for : > my \$a = \$b; > although I don't know what you call "binding" exactly.
That was the one. Assigning references to references currently isn't valid syntax, but the underlying Perl core API supports it, so it wouldn't be that hard to implement. Even things like \($a[2]) = \$b are viable. Nicholas Clark
