NAME

Scalar::Alias - Perl extention to declare lexical scalar aliases

VERSION

This document describes Scalar::Alias version 0.06.

SYNOPSIS

        use Scalar::Alias;

        sub inc{
                my alias $x = shift;
                $x++;
                return;
        }

        my $i = 0;
        inc($i);
        print $i, "\n"; # => 1

        my %h;
        my alias $foo = $h{foo};

        # %h is empty

        $foo = 10;

        # %h is {foo => 10}

DESCRIPTION

Scalar::Alias allows you to declare lexical scalar aliases.

There are many modules that provides variable aliases, but this module is faster than any other alias modules, because it walks into compiled syntax trees and inserts custom opcodes into the syntax tree in order to alias variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Perl 5.8.1 or later, and a C compiler.

BUGS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to the author.

SEE ALSO

Lexical::Types.

"lexical aliases" in perltodo.

Other alias modules:

Lexical::Alias.

Lexical::Util

Devel::LexAlias.

Tie::Alias.

Variable::Alias.

Data::Alias.

AUTHOR

Goro Fuji (gfx) <gfuji(at)cpan.org>.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009, Goro Fuji (gfx). Some rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.