Re^2: Aliasing bites

Perhaps I've missunderstood your post, but what do aliases get you that references don't? Slightly nicer syntax?

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Re^3: Aliasing bites by revdiablo (Prior) on May 11, 2005 at 19:23 UTC
Compare the output from these two snippets: `$ pugs -e 'my %hash; %hash<foo>[0]<bar>[0] = 1; my $alias := %hash<foo>[0]; say ref $alias; %hash<foo>[0] = 5; say ref $alias' Hash Int $ pugs -e 'my %hash; %hash<foo>[0]<bar>[0] = 1; my $ref = %hash<foo>[0]; say ref $ref; %hash<foo>[0] = 5; say ref $ref' Hash Hash` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Aliasing bites
by revdiablo (Prior) on May 11, 2005 at 19:23 UTC

Compare the output from these two snippets:

$ pugs -e 'my %hash;
           %hash<foo>[0]<bar>[0] = 1;
           my $alias := %hash<foo>[0];
           say ref $alias;
           %hash<foo>[0] = 5;
           say ref $alias'
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$ pugs -e 'my %hash;
           %hash<foo>[0]<bar>[0] = 1;
           my $ref = %hash<foo>[0];
           say ref $ref;
           %hash<foo>[0] = 5;
           say ref $ref'
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