POD seemed to imply this wasn't supported (by not saying it was), but I wanted to ask in case it was obvious... can implicit assignment to $_ be aliased? As in 

for alias my $line (<DATA>) {}

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I'd probably never want to alias $_, just a curiosity.

I don't see anything about filehandles in the POD, either, as in 

alias my $line = <DATA>;
while ( defined( alias my $line = <DATA> ) ) {}

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I'm not sure what I'd expect from the first, but the second involves another implicit assignment to $_. Would that work as 'expected'?

Deref is especially cool and I look forward to that very much. ++

--Solo

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In reply to Re: RFC: Is there more to alias? by Solo
in thread RFC: Is there more to alias? by xmath

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