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.
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I'm with choroba on this. Whenever I see a phrase like "variable x is an alias of variable y", I immediately think that any operation upon x is really an operation upon y. The fanciness is implicit in the term itself, plain as it may be. See 'alias' in perlglossary.
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Maybe the big, fancy word you're thinking of is 'autovivification' (see also perlglossary), but that's something else entirely.
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And BTW: 'aliasing' (both term and concept) is not a Perlism, i.e., something specific to Perl, it's a basic CS-ish notion.
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You know, 'autovivification' just might be the word that I was thinking of. I had to look up its meaning, and reading it now, I do see that it is an entirely different thing than what I described. I probably once misunderstood what autovivification was and committed my own definition to memory, but I think that is the word I was looking for.
THANKS!
I know that aliasing is not unique to Perl. :) But, I think that the full behavior shown in my example and described in my quoted sentence from Modern Perl is probably unanticipated for most people who are accustomed to other languages.
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