On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, BÁRTHÁZI András wrote:
Hi,
I'm still interested in, why "alias" wouldn't be a native Perl 6 term?
I think, there are several reasons for "alias":
I am not arguing against alias, but just wanted to point out something.
- in Perl 6, currently there's no way to create a reference to a
variable, _with the context of the variable_, too
unless you bind immediately where you declare the original variable:
Some new examples, maybe better than before:
sub kilobytes ($value:) is export {
return $value*1024;
}
alias kilobytes, kilobyte;
replace the last line with:
&kilobytes := &kilobyte;
and the scoping is not an issue.
And with synonyms, binding as soon as declaring seems prudent.
--abhijit
Abhijit Mahabal http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~amahabal/
