Re^6: Shouldn't references be readonly?

alias
A nickname for something, which behaves in all ways as though you’d used the original name instead of the nickname. Temporary aliases are implicitly created in the loop variable for foreach loops, in the $_ variable for map or grep operators, in $a and $b during sort’s comparison function, and in each element of @_ for the actual arguments of a subroutine call. Permanent aliases are explicitly created in packages by importing symbols or by assignment to typeglobs. Lexically scoped aliases for package variables are explicitly created by the our declaration.

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Re^7: Shouldn't references be readonly? by jo37 (Deacon) on Aug 05, 2020 at 18:40 UTC
This a lame description of aliases. See Symbol Tables. Greetings, -jo `$gryYup$d0ylprbpriprrYpkJl2xyl~rzg??P~5lp2hyl0p$`	[reply]
Re^8: Shouldn't references be readonly? by LanX (Saint) on Aug 05, 2020 at 18:53 UTC
Nope typeglobs are only one of many possibilities to have aliases. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^9: Shouldn't references be readonly? by jo37 (Deacon) on Aug 05, 2020 at 19:21 UTC
This confuses me. Could you explain some of these many other ways to create aliases that end up in something different? An alias creation that does not put a reference into a symbol table entry slot? Greetings, -jo `$gryYup$d0ylprbpriprrYpkJl2xyl~rzg??P~5lp2hyl0p$`	[reply]
Re^10: Shouldn't references be readonly? by haukex (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2020 at 20:30 UTC
Re^10: Shouldn't references be readonly? (UPDATED) by LanX (Saint) on Aug 05, 2020 at 19:31 UTC
Re^11: Shouldn't references be readonly? by jo37 (Deacon) on Aug 05, 2020 at 19:48 UTC
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