On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:22:54 +0100, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If postfix "!" was up for grabs - which it probably isn't - what would
> you do with it?
>
> One interesting suggestion was to have it as a shorthand for assertion:
>
> sub foo {
> (@_ > 0)!;
> ...
> }
>
> (Or even have ! be a valid statement terminator, so "(@_>0)!" would work.)
>
> Or you could have it doing something to variables: $a = $b! + $c;
> (But what?)
>
> Fun, eh?
DWIM would be "faculty"
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