Hi, while doing some research for a talk on Perl secret operators, I tried to find who first coined the term "secret operator".
I found a post from Greg Allen on February 2004 on this very list (http://groups.google.com/group/perl.fwp/msg/e62668a760de1652), and then a post by Abigail on comp.lang.perl.misc on January 2003 (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/22cfcd81a1521ec4). Does anyone know of an earlier occurence of the term? Now that I have seen Abigail's post on clpm, I want to know its name. It is the longest secret operator I've seen, and also the only one that must be on three lines (not counting the content). <<m=~m>> (commented out code and pod goes here) m ; I have a few ideas for names, but they don't fit very well, and do not describe the "m\n;" part of the operator. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Putting beauty before brains is the surest way to wind up with neither. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #24 (Epic))
