Re: Aliases upon aliases

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at. You could replace 0..4 with 'a'..'e' and you'll get the same answer. You're essentially "protecting" the second half of the list by writing on it with new values using splice (which doesn't trigger the aliases because it operates on lists, not scalars) and then writing on the other half by dealing with the scalars.

The "trick", as it were, is the fact that @_ isn't an alias itself; its elements are aliases.

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Re^2: Aliases upon aliases by Pragma (Scribe) on Sep 29, 2004 at 19:08 UTC
Yes, the 0..4 was not the point; I simply needed to overwrite it with a 5-element list with any values. My reason for posting this was exactly the "trick" you noted, and the fact that splice does not involve the aliases, even when overwriting.	[reply]