Perl v5.22’s experimental refaliasing feature adds the ability to alias a named variable to another named variable, or alias a named variable to a reference. This doesn’t copy the data; you end up with another named variable for the same data. As with all such features, the details and syntax may change or the feature may be removed all together (according to perlpolicy). Update: Also see v5.26’s declared_refs experimental feature.
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