On 12/27/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:10:45AM -0500, Rob Kinyon wrote:
> : Creating an array whose positions are aliases for positions in another
> : array can be useful. How about
> :
> : my @s := @a[0,2,4] is alias;
> :
> : @a[2] = 3; # @s[1] == 3
> : @s[1] = 4; # @a[2] == 4
> :
> : The default slicing behavior would default to "is copy", to preserve
> : the current semantics. Does that sound reasonable?
>
> Hmm. Assignment is already adequate for copying semantics. And binding
> the individual elements can presumably be done by:
>
> my [EMAIL PROTECTED] := @a[0,2,4];
What's the difference between:
my @s := @a[0,2,4];
and
my [EMAIL PROTECTED] := @a[0,2,4];
?
Rob
