I think that it would make maint a LOT harder (decreased readability). If people already complein about using the same "name" for variables that are related, this would only worsen that. Personally I'd choose an opt-in to make use of this new hypothetical feature a fatal warning :]
my %name;
my @name;
sub name {
my $name = shift;
exists $name{$name} and return $name{$name};
grep { $_ eq $name } @name and return $name;
return "invalid";
} # name
FWIW, the above code is fine with me :)
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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