Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-06 Thread Michael R . Wolf
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

Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-03 Thread John Douglas Porter
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) 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 that > corre

Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-03 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
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

Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-03 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:28:56PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > Le 16 mars 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) > 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 s

Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-03 Thread Andrew Savige
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? /-\

Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-02 Thread Pau Amma
On Mon, April 2, 2012 4:28 pm, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > Le 16 mars 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) > 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 word of war

Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-04-02 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Le 16 mars 2012 12:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) 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 enough, I'll s

Re: Secret operators: the documentation

2012-03-16 Thread Daniel Bruder
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) wrote: > So, > > A few years back, I started to write a manual page about Perl secret > operators, > with the goal of ge