Update: I forgot about the magic aliasing power of
@_. See
Corion's branch in this thread.
I believe part of the problem is that
$array[$x] is not a lexical. Consider:
my @data = (1 .. 5);
{
local $data[2] = 100;
print_data();
}
print_data();
sub print_data {
print "@data\n";
}
(Did you know you can use
local() on elements in lexical aggregates?)
But moreso, because the elements in aggregates do not have symbols, I do not think they can be aliased. I would expect Perl 6 would make this possible.
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