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From:
Jeff Yoak
Date:
February 1, 2005 10:03
Subject:
Re: "Secret" operators
Message ID:
1107281029.22774.28.camel@jeffy.internal
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 03:49, José 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 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 it *isn't* clear what
it does, even after running it.  Can you explain this one?  And also,
what does the name "goatse" mean?

Cheers,
Jeff



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