Re: The "flaming X-wing" secret operator

Yanick Champoux <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:01:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
shmem wrote:
> To brighten up your day - here's the winged moon, which isn't an
> operator, but a constant:
> 
>     ~@~

Georg added:
> Similar to the winged moon - an "operator" (token?) which scares
> the hell out of the remainder of a list:
> 
>     ^@^


	Me likes. Lots.  I propose, as alternative names for those two tokens, 
the "fat bat" (because it does look like a particularly rotund specimen 
of that species, and in honor of the large value it yields) and 
the"laughing joker" (as in, "just kidding, the rest of the line doesn't 
apply). :-)

Joy,
`/anick