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in reply to BooK proposes a new Perl secret operator (Secret Operator References)

This seems more aerodynamic than a kite: ~><> Call it the rocket operator?

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Re^2: BooK proposes a new Perl secret operator
by tobyink (Canon) on Mar 20, 2012 at 13:04 UTC

    Too ambiguous. Many Ruby users call the fat comma (=>) the "hash rocket", and in Perl the numeric comparison operator (<=>) is often referred to as the "spaceship operator".

    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
Re^2: BooK proposes a new Perl secret operator (cracked propellant)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 20, 2012 at 14:00 UTC

    At least it shares one property with a rocket: it blows up.

    - tye