On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:58:44AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> I'd just like to point out that it's already becoming fairly easy
> to establish a bare alias for a scalar variable even in Perl 5:
> 
>     my $foo;
>     my sub foo : lvalue { $foo }

I tried working on a "pythonish" module built around

    sub AUTOLOAD : lvalue { $$AUTOLOAD }

Didn't finish it, but got close enough.

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