I checked CPAN, and it seemed like there were no Tie:: modules that cover this niche (BTW, it's interesting how many different Tie::* modules there are), so I just released Tie-Subset. My code from here now has two more working implementations:

use Tie::Subset::Array;
sub arr_alias_4 {
    my ($arr,@i) = @_;
    tie my @x, 'Tie::Subset::Array', $arr, \@i;
    return \@x;
}

use Tie::Subset::Hash;
sub hash_alias_4 {
    my ($hash,@k) = @_;
    tie my %x, 'Tie::Subset::Hash', $hash, \@k;
    return \%x;
}

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Earlier you said:

@_ ... seems to be reliable. Though not many people know if it depends on an implementation detail.

I've included a test in the above distribution that tests it. So it'll be run on CPAN Testers and now we have a canary to see if one of the newer releases of Perl starts breaking the aliasing via \@_ :-)

In reply to Re^8: Selecting Ranges of 2-Dimensional Data by haukex
in thread Selecting Ranges of 2-Dimensional Data by haukex

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