Re: aliasing - was:[nice2haveit]

[John Porter]

Bart Lateur wrote:
> So, in this case, a "with" synonym for "for" would work.
> 
> But this only works for scalars. You can't have a %foo alias to
> %Some::Other::hash this way, or a @bar alias to @Some::Other::array.

Sounds like what we really want is a form of "for" which can iterate
over a list of hashes or arrays:

        for my @a ( @foo, @bar ) { ...

        for my %h ( %foo, %bar ) { ...

-- 
John Porter