On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:44 AM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret
operators,
with the goal of getting it into the official Perl documentation at some
point.
A few comments…
1. It would be nice to do a bit of documentation on
I wonder if --$| and $|--, very popular in golf, and described
by japhy as the magical flip flop variable at:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2002/01/msg1367.html
qualifies as a secret operator?
/-\
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:28:56PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
Le 16 mars 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
philippe.bru...@free.fr a écrit :
So,
A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret
operators,
with the goal of getting it into the official Perl
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:43:54AM -0700, Andrew Savige wrote:
I wonder if --$| and $|--, very popular in golf, and described
by japhy as the magical flip flop variable at:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2002/01/msg1367.html
qualifies as a secret operator?
I have had
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) philippe.bru...@free.fr wrote:
Andrew Savige wrote:
I wonder if --$| and $|--, ... described
by japhy as the magical flip flop variable
qualifies as a secret operator?
My rule has been to keep
only the well-known operators, or the ones that had a
nickname
Le 16 mars 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
philippe.bru...@free.fr a écrit :
So,
A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret
operators,
with the goal of getting it into the official Perl documentation at some
point.
[...]
Patches welcome.
When it's stabilized
On Mon, April 2, 2012 4:28 pm, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:
Le 16 mars 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
philippe.bru...@free.fr a écrit :
So,
A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret
operators,
[...]
I have a question though;
Did you change your mind about the A
Also don't forget it is expandable, and as it is, still (erotic?) perl :-)
perl -e 'print ~~ = = ~~ = ~~+0'
On 16 March 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) philippe.bru...@free.frwrote:
So,
A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret
operators,
with the
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:02:56PM -, McGlinchy, Alistair wrote:
Unfortunately -+- is bugged [*], but I'll leave these as
gotcha's for
your production code. :-)
[*] You might want to consider: print-+- '-2B' x 5;
José Castro wrote in perl.fwp :
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator, can
anyone tell me about other secret operators?
I think nobody mentioned the toothpick operator yet.
/\/\//
Exists also in extra-large version.
--
Tsk tsk, that's not an O'Reilly title. You
Andrew Savige wrote:
@{[]} join $, ...
My better half proposes to call this one the papoose operator.
Joy,
`/anick
Le vendredi 04 février 2005 à 09:42, Yanick Champoux écrivait:
Andrew Savige wrote:
@{[]} join $, ...
My better half proposes to call this one the papoose operator.
Or the trolley operator (as in supermarkets), where you stuff everything
you want to
Le mercredi 02 février 2005 à 21:36, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni écrivait:
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote:
So we have :
symbolnicknameRole
--
= spaceship documented operator
0+venus
Eugene == Eugene van der Pijll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
@{[]} aka ???The Schwartz early 1990s
Eugene The Larry, May 1 1994
Eugene http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl/msg/1d82c7c3f3e94266
The array version was actually discussed in private email
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:33:35 +1100 (EST)
Andrew Savige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jos_ Castro wrote:
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator,
can anyone tell me about other secret
Andrew Savige wrote:
twos complement machine -- and I'm not aware of any perl running
on any non twos complement machine.
I ported Perl 1.0 (and probably 2.0) to UNIX 1100 (UNIX as guest OS on
Univac 1100). The machine was 36-bit, ones complement, word addressable.
Porting software to this
* McGlinchy, Alistair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi All,
High in fun, but low in usefulness is -+- , a high precedence string
numerifier. It sort of looks like an A C Clarke style spacestation so
that's what I've been calling it. Although I'm not too sure that Larry's
spaceship =3D would be
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:33:35 +1100 (EST)
Andrew Savige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jos_ Castro wrote:
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator,
can anyone tell me about other secret operators?
Let's not forget the Ton Hospel high-precedence decrement
operator ~- invented
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote:
So we have :
symbolnicknameRole
--
= spaceship documented operator
0+venus numification
}{eskimo greeting END{} in one-liners
--- Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
symbolnicknameRole
--
= spaceship documented
operator
0+venus numification
}{eskimo greeting
Andrew Savige schreef:
The table below is based on wild guesswork. If there are any oldbies
listening, please chime in with corrections.
Not an oldbie, but...
@{[]} aka ???The Schwartz early 1990s
The Larry, May 1 1994
On Feb 2, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
Hey Philippe, why don't you give the name we found for @{[]} ?
It looks like a guy lying on his side in a straightjacket to me.
Chris
--
Chris Dolan, Software Developer, www.chrisdolan.net
Public key:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:49:57 +, José Castro wrote:can
anyone tell me about other secret operators?
I just produced this in my own code, I think it would qualify. Take this
expression in list context:
cond ? foo : ()
I'm talking about the 3 characters at the end: : (). I'd call it a
Le mardi 01 février 2005 à 11:49, José Castro écrivait:
Hi, guys.
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator, can
anyone tell me about other secret operators?
Examples:
eskimo: }{
goatse: =()=
eskimo usage: perl -ne '}{print $.'
goatse usage: perl -e
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:49:57 +
Jos_ Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, guys.
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator, can
anyone tell me about other secret operators?
Examples:
eskimo: }{
goatse: =()=
eskimo usage: perl -ne '}{print $.'
perl
Le mardi 01 février 2005 à 18:57, Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski écrivait:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:57:33 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat) wrote:
There's also @{[]} but I don't know f it has a name.
Usage: print splatt @{[ ... ]} pow
where ... is any valid expression,
Can I get that just a little slower?
$b = () = /u/g;
is the same as:
@a = /u/g;
$b = @a;
I understand what happens, but it appears to be assigning to an empty list
- is that filling up the list, so to speak? Or is it just that it makes
the 'result' of /u/g assign in array/list
From the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01.02.05,11:15]:
Can I get that just a little slower?
$b = () = /u/g;
is the same as:
@a = /u/g;
$b = @a;
it's not the same.
perl -le '$_=foo; print $b =()= /o/g'
2
perl -le '$_=foo; print @b =()= /o/g'
perl -le '$_=foo; print /o/g'
oo
* Ronald J Kimball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You can assign two elements to a one-element list:
($foo) = (1, 2);
You can even assign two elements to an empty list:
() = (1, 2);
In each case, any extra elements are simply discarded, but the result of
the assignment in scalar
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 03:49, Jos Castro wrote:
Hi, guys.
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator, can
anyone tell me about other secret operators?
Examples:
eskimo: }{
goatse: =()=
eskimo usage: perl -ne '}{print $.'
This is wonderfully deranged. I
* Jeff Yoak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
eskimo usage: perl -ne '}{print $.'
This is wonderfully deranged. I haven't seen it before, but it was
immediately clear what it does.
goatse usage: perl -e '$_=zbrughau;$b=()=/u/g;print $b'
This is probably even more wonderfully deranged as
--- José Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Quantum Mechanic ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
$foo = ($bar) = (9,8,7);
RHS list
($bar) array
$bar - 7 (rest discarded)
No, no, no.
$bar - 9
Yes, that was a typo -- thanks.
It's the same as
$foo = ($bar,
José Castro wrote:
Apart from the secret eskimo greeting and the goatse operator,
can anyone tell me about other secret operators?
Let's not forget the Ton Hospel high-precedence decrement
operator ~- invented during a golf tournament (anyone remember
which one?).
IIRC, Ton's ~- invention
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote:
So we have :
symbolnicknameRole
--
= spaceship documented operator
0+venus numification
}{eskimo greeting END{} in
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