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>I was referring to the visual similarity of = and =~, when in fact they
>have nothing to do with one another. The expression I picked is just a
>frequently encountered idiom that puts the two in close proximity. Your
>proposed ~ thing would make it much rarer, but I still think =~ looks
>like something to do with assignment.

Well, with a /match/, it's read-only, true, and thus nothing
like "an assignment".  But with either s/ubs/titut/e or
a tr/ansli/terate/, you do (potentially) change the variable.

--tom