RE: "Secret" operators

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [mailto:[email protected]] wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:02:56PM -0000, McGlinchy, Alistair wrote:
> > Unfortunately -+- is bugged [*], but I'll leave these as 
> gotcha's for 
> > your production code. :-)
> > 
> > [*] You might want to consider: print    -+- '-2B'      x 5;  # Bug?
> 
> No.  perlop say: if the string starts with a plus or minus, a 
> string starting with the opposite sign is returned.

Hmmm. Looks like I didn't put enough smilies there.  Perhaps the much
more bugged^?^?^?^?^?^? robust reciprocal operator /// will put your
mind at rest. :-)

print ///4; # prints 0.25  :-)

Cheers,  :-)

Alistair




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