Hello all,
I had asked:
> Command 5:
> Why is "- bogus" not treated as a unary minus operation on a
> bareword? Why does it get stringified and squeezed into
> "-bogus"? (See Command 7.)
"perldoc perlop" says that this is the intended behaviour:
|| Unary "-" performs arithmetic negation if the operand is
|| numeric. If the operand is an identifier, a string con�
|| sisting of a minus sign concatenated with the identifier
|| is returned. [...]
I should have noted this before firing off my email.
peace, || Udayachal: a newspaper edited by slum children:
--{kr.pA} || http://tinyurl.com/57jaf
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