Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

Nigel Rantor wiggly at wiggly.org
Wed Oct 8 16:23:49 BST 2008


Nigel Metheringham 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....

*fnaar*

Good work fella. You're right, I just wanted to retain the possibility 
of using ~~ for my own nefarious ends in a yet-to-be-written Perl source 
filter *cue evil laughter*

Although, if people are going to start calling it the "wiggly" operator 
that wouldn't be too bad either. B-)





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