Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Philippe Bruhat (BooK)]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 03:36:18PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Nigel Metheringham
> <nigel.metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 8 Oct 2008, at 14:51, Nigel Rantor <wiggly at wiggly.org> wrote:
> >
> >> If anyone comes back and tell me that they think ~~ scans nicely in
> >> english
> >
> >
> > Considering your email address I would have thought you would be very
> > much in favour of ~~ and have a good way of pronouncing it....
> 
> OMG ROFL!
> 
> If this operator doesn't have a well-established way of being
> pronounced I think it ought to have this one!

Note that the ~~ secret operator (the one that does "scalar" and works
with Perls older than 5.10, not "smart-match") is called "inchworm".

Example usage:

    perl -le'print~~localtime'

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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