On 14 Oct 2002, at 16:22, iudicium ferat wrote:

> On 10/14/02 2:47 PM, "Bart Lateur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:34:19 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > 
> >> This is what the flip-flop operator is for.
> 
> Is 
> 
>     $.
> 
> The flip-flop operator?  I cannot any flip-flop operator.

I think they're referring to the '..' operator in scalar context:

    In scalar context, ".." returns a boolean value.  The operator is
    bistable, like a flip-flop, and emulates the line-range (comma)
    operator of sed, awk, and various editors....

/Bernie\

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