David Wheeler wrote:
On Dec 6, 2004, at 7:38 AM, Austin Hastings wrote:
for =<> {...}
I dub the...the fish operator!
:-)
Back before there was a WWW, I used an editor called "tgif". It was written in france, and part of the idiom was to have two GUI buttons showing respectively the head (" <* ") and tail (" >( ") parts of a fish. This were graphical images, please forgive my poor ascii drawing.
It took me a while to figure it out, but it was a cute bit of bilingualism. (Or perhaps it was a bit of bilingual cute-ism...)
=Austin