Re: Naming the @{[]} operator

"A. Pagaltzis" <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:42:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
Message-ID <20060708084232.GD2620@klangraum>
* Philippe "BooK" Bruhat <[email protected]> [2006-07-07 17:35]:
> I recently thought about the @{[]} operator again (one of the
> semi-famous Perl "secret operators"), and called it the
> "babycart" operator.

That name only works as long as there isn’t anything within. The
spaceship operator is always `<=>`, and “diamond” refers
specifically to the empty `<>` form of the read operator.

`@{[]}` is really a form of parenthesis.

So call it the fat brackets.

Regards,
-- 
#Aristotle
*AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1};
&Just->another->Perl->hacker;