Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g

[Graham Barr]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:19:40PM +0000, Fred Heutte wrote:
> It seems to me that ~ relates to forces (operators, functions and methods)
> more than to atoms (scalars), so to speak.  It's the curve of binding Perl
> at work here.
> 
> So why not leave  .  alone and have  ~  substitute for  ->  
> 
> $mydsn->Sql("$mysqlstmt " . $moresql) ;
> $mydsn~Sql("$mysqlstmt " . $moresql) ;
> 
> Yes, I know ~ is the bitwise negation operator.  Have you EVER used it?

Yes, I use it a lot. Whether you use it probably depends on the kind of
problems you try to solve with perl.

Graham.