On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:44 AM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret
> operators,
> with the goal of getting it into the official Perl documentation at some
> point.
A few comments…
1. It would be nice to do a bit of documentation on *why* or *how* some of
these work. Perhaps a Deparse would be sufficient (as in Eskimo greeting), but
English is also a good tool.
For starters, I didn't figure out how "Ornate double-bladed sword worked". I'm
sure I could have created the trail alone, but it would be nice to follow
someone else's blaze.
2. Given how dangerous this one could be (to a psyche) if researched deeply
(years of therapy…)
=( )= Goatse scalar / list context
I'd suggest another name -- Saturn. Yes, snicker if you will. Saturn *is* the
son of the Greek deity Uranus, but that's only a 2nd order, inside joke. The
operator looks like Saturn, even when spaces are inserted (as will be likely
with syntax formatting editors or perltidy(1))!
=( )= Saturn scalar / list context
= ( ) = Saturn scalar / list context
Keep the old name if you wish, but add one that's more psychologically healthy,
too!!! (P.S. Thanks for the warning. That's just plain *responsible*
behavior to the community!!! One image could ruin someone's whole view of
Perl.)
Michael
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Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
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