Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while doing some research for a talk on Perl secret operators, I tried
> to find who first coined the term "secret operator".
> 
> I found a post from Greg Allen on February 2004 on this very list
> (http://groups.google.com/group/perl.fwp/msg/e62668a760de1652),
> and then a post by Abigail on comp.lang.perl.misc on January 2003
> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/22cfcd81a1521ec4).
> 
> Does anyone know of an earlier occurence of the term?

Simon Cozens uses the term "double-secret operator" (a reference to Animal 
House) in a perl.com article on June 6, 2003.  But it's not really an 
FWP-style secret operator and it's after Abigail anyway.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/06/regexps.html


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