RE: This Week on perl5-porters (23-29 December 2002)

Rafael Garcia-Suarez:
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# Defining lexical aliases
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#   Brent Dax, voice from the Perl 6 lists, proposed to 
# introduce the Perl 6
#   binding operator "my $alias := $value" instead. (Oddly enough this
#   particular syntax isn't currently rejected by Perl 5.)

Just a little correction: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes suggested it; I said
that it might not be a good idea because Perl 6's := has other semantics
that would be harder to emulate.

--Brent Dax <[email protected]>
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