!0

Abigail abigail at abigail.be
Thu Feb 12 21:44:56 GMT 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:34:37PM +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Just been studying a CPAN module and I see a load of references to !0.  
> Er, what is that? Googling most unhelpful.


It must be the prefix factorial operator.

  $ perl -E 'say !0'
  1
  $

and 1 is 0 factorial. qed.



Abigail


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