Re: [FWP] Quine, ontology, and Perl

[Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>]

Jeff Pinyan writes:
> The aliasing apparently has no effect on hashes, whether they're normal or
> symbol tables.  (Try on %ENV.)

Shame on you all for not using 5.6:

  gnat# perl5.6.0 -le '%a = (qw(w a a t)); map { $_ x= 2 }  %a; print %a'
  waaatt

  gnat# perl5.00404 -le '%a = (qw(w a a t)); map { $_ x= 2 }  %a; print %a'
  atwa

In 5.6, values(%a) (and every 2nd scalar in list context %a) are
lvaluable.

Nat

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