But shouldn't the alias be to the elements of the list returned by sort,
not to the elements of the original list? Should sort sort a copy of its
argument and return the sorted copy?
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 21 10:10:59 2005
> Subject: [perl #36616] bug or feature? foreach (sort @array) {y/a-z/A-Z/;} #
> @array modified!
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> Yes, this is correct. The loop variable is an alias.
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