Re: A specific term for a Perlism

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Re^2: A specific term for a Perlism by JupiterCrash (Monk) on Mar 19, 2015 at 16:29 UTC
"Alias" and "Aliasing" are descriptive and used perfectly in the Modern Perl example to describe this behavior, but not what I had in mind. By "fancy" I supposed I meant a large, and overly-complex-sounding single word that represented this specific behavior of auto-aliasing the iterator within a loop to allow in-place modifications of the thing being iterated on. My memory might be completely wrong on this, maybe no such word exists. I sure can't find it. I just have this memory...of something... and it's been driving me crazy for a week. It's been about 10 years since I've logged into PerlMonks and this has driven me to dig up my password and login to ask! :)	[reply]
Re^3: A specific term for a Perlism by Anonymous Monk on Mar 19, 2015 at 16:34 UTC
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Re^4: A specific term for a Perlism by JupiterCrash (Monk) on Mar 19, 2015 at 16:46 UTC
Thanks, but the word I am looking for is not a synonym for an alias. It encapsulated the full behavior described in the sentence that I quoted from the Modern Perl book (which used an alias to accomplish the end result). If nobody comes up with the word I am looking for, I will rest easy in the belief that this word is a figment of my imagination.	[reply]
Re^5: A specific term for a Perlism by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 19, 2015 at 18:02 UTC
Re^6: A specific term for a Perlism by JupiterCrash (Monk) on Mar 19, 2015 at 18:26 UTC
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Re^6: A specific term for a Perlism by Discipulus (Canon) on Mar 20, 2015 at 09:57 UTC