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.

In reply to Re^6: A specific term for a Perlism by JupiterCrash
in thread A specific term for a Perlism by JupiterCrash

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