On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:40:20PM -0500, Yanick wrote:
> But I still don't understand what it brings more
> than a classic 'map', or why The Power That Is didn't
> just decided to do an overloading of =~ (so @a =~ /stuff/
> would work)
The fact that we have ^=~ is just a side-effect of the existence
of the other hyper-operators, such as @a = @b ^+ @c. That's not
something you can do very easily with a map, and something you
certainly can't do with an overloading. The reason people fixate
on ^=~ is because it looks particularly weird. :)
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