Re: RFC 170 (v1) Generalize =~ to a special-purpose assignment operator

[Bart Lateur]

On 30 Aug 2000 02:07:24 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

>Generalize =~ to a special-purpose assignment operator

Personally, I think of it as the "apply to" operator, as opposed to the
"assign to" operator:

        =       assign the RHS to the LHS
        =~      apply the RHS to the LHS


perlop calls it a "binding operator". That's fine too, apart from this
error in perlop:

        Binary "=~" binds a scalar expression to a pattern match.

I'm sorry, but it applies to tr/// too, and that IS NOT a pattern match.

-- 
        Bart.